When you refuse to fully examine your western privilege, defence will look like an attack.
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you can talk about your trauma all the damn day long while inflicting vast amounts of trauma on families in the name of "not giving in" to Putin.
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you can claim a country on the other side of the world that you didn't know the name of last week is something you're willing to blow the world up for in order not to "give up", like it was ever "yours" in the first place.
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you can comfortably buy the lie that you're perpetually up-punching in every conflict, always the little Marvel hero coming to save the world from the big bad evil villain.
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you refuse to examine why everything in the world is "ours" to "defend" and why no things are ever "none of our damn business."
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you perceive someone taking a privilege away as someone taking something that was "yours" that was never yours in the first place.
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you indulge in a kind of political Munchausen's disease where you are a perpetual victim that is always being bullied.
When you refuse to examine your western privilege, you can read one (1) New York Times think piece about a situation you knew literally nothing about five minutes ago and assume that your new-found opinion is the only opinion that exists and every other opinion needs censoring.
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