12/04/2026
SONNTAGSLEKTÜRE ☕️
"The paradox of our discourse these days is that the exact same people who promote the idea to abolish „Western hegemony“ often have big problems respecting the opinions and perspectives of people who are from outside or new in the Western world. For example, we see Westerners who „explain“ Iranians that the Iranian regime is only defending itself against a Western imperialist attack and that they are wrong supporting the protests, which are of course „staged“. [...] This practice can be described as Westsplaining, a term used to describe situations in which Western actors impose their ideological interpretations on non Western societies while dismissing lived experiences and local realities. Westsplaining assumes that those at a safe distance understand political realities better than those directly affected by repression, violence, or exile. In this way, it reproduces a paternalistic logic that closely resembles the attitudes it claims to oppose.
Westsplaining was also very popular after the full scale invasion of Ukraine, when certain Westerners practiced victim blaming, with narratives like that „Russia reacted on NATO invasion“ or even excusing the Russian invasion with the old fake that Ukraine „banned“ Russian language. In this logic, Ukrainians are denied political agency and reduced to passive objects of geopolitical forces. The voices of those actually living under attack are ignored in favor of ideological consistency."
Anti Western sentiment among Western audiences is a worldwide phenomenon that has various historical roots and reasons, but is also a product of constant propaganda, long term ideological subversion, and political extremes that compete in self hatred. Firstly, before even attempting to analyze the p...
