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by pseudalopex 498 days ago
> Okay, so your argument is that "the west" can only mean something "innate"?

Karp said the west is innately superior. JumpCrisscross suggested this was acceptable because democracies are innately superior to autocracies. But western countries are not innately democratic. And democracy is not innately western. Superiority is not innate if its basis is not innate.

> What makes makes the US "innately" white?

People who define the west as white people do not consider all Americans part of the west. And I said it was a common definition. Not good.