Well, apart from simultaneously misreading/misrepresenting my post (you actually agree with half my post and position) and demonstrating an underlying tenet of my position, I think it is best we don’t debate, and just agree the world can be better and there is more than enough hypocrisy to go around.
Edit: I do want to encourage you to actually look in to where the raw materials come from for the electronics and clothing you own (among other things). Much of it is sourced not from low wage workers, but from effectively slave labour (often involving children), and that has been the case for a century, long after slavery was abolished in the UK (and US), which we support indirectly with our lifestyles whilst denouncing similar travesties elsewhere. When I said slave labour, I wasn’t be hyperbolic, and it is important not to lower ourselves to likes of Delaney, Harris, and Schindler with delusional hypocrisy (or the Dippers always playing the victim) and to recognise the suffering we help perpetuate, regardless of whether we want to acknowledge our part in it based on our expedient political leanings. It is not “white man’s guilt” to recognise the west have helped create a world of exploitation and suffering for our benefit, with the true costs of the things we love and can’t live without being externalised to the global south, and we have some responsibility for improving that lot for most the world, as we can. Otherwise, we are the baddies. Ignorance, apathy, and political ideology is not an excuse for the suffering of billions of people, just as it wouldn’t be if it were your loved ones suffering.
This is something I have studied, in a professional capacity, my entire adult life and it is not something that can be debated according to alternative facts.
