Singapore Was Once Oppressed. Now It Bans People for Siding With the Oppressed

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“What this episode exposes is the comfortable myth that the Global South constitutes some natural bloc of solidarity against Western imperial power”

Let’s start with a psychological fact that most people do not know. In psychology, we have something called the Implicit Association Test which was designed to measure the bias the brain holds before the conscious mind can fight it. It catches what you actually think, not what you are willing to say out loud. A global study by economist Alexander Coutts analyzing over three million such tests across 146 countries produced a ranking of which nations show the strongest unconscious preference for white people over people of color. The United States, the country most people would instinctively place at the top of that list, does not even come close. The country that ranks number one, with the highest pro-white implicit bias on earth, …