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suspended said:
Who did you displace, Nícolas

Who did you leave behind

What keeps you up at night is it your treachery against your home, your people, your race

This line of thinking is, truly, tedious
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"Bro your municipal and national governments have invested billions of dollars into attracting foreigners to make CDMX more cosmopolitan and wealthy"

I also love when people treat Mexico as an ex-colony. Theyre about as post-colonial as the USA, i.e. they've had independence for a longgggg time. They just happen to be poorer atm because less European cognitive capital was brought in.
 
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I don't like Bolano, but a lot of the people quoted just come off as bitter and competitive. That combined with the author sweating over what kind of person liking Bolano makes him and how it affects his personal brand.
 
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For every asshole traipsing through Mexico City brandishing The Savage Detectives, there was someone else who knew enough to bury his copy deep in his luggage and, if asked, to pretend never to have heard of it.
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Literally nobody from Mexico who isn't mentally ill would want this outcome
 
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WashYourHands said:
could you expand on this duck
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Europeans, for reasons that are largely circumstantial and geographical, had a very large technological, literacy, and numeracy advantage over much of the world in the period of American & Mexican development. This meant that, as literate, numerate, and high-skilled European immigrants have settled disproportionately in the United States, since 1500—for reasons that are largely cultural, religious, and linguistic—the United States of America has enjoyed a sizeable advantage politically, militaristically, and developmentally over the United Mexican States.
 
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In my mind, it's more clearly racist to jump to the conclusion that someone making a point about development is making a racial argument, than it is to point out obvious facts about development. Which is to say, your problematizing a point about development, as if it were racial, says something about your own conflations more than it does about mine.
 
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"For every asshole traipsing through Mexico City brandishing The Savage Detectives, there was someone else who knew enough to bury his copy deep in his luggage and, if asked, to pretend never to have heard of it."

This sort of hyper self-consciousness you see in American liberals just seems to betray how much of a thing race is for them. I mean, the guy's talking about hiding a book by a Latin American author out of fear that Latin American people might see it...
 
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In my mind, it's more clearly racist to jump to the conclusion that someone making a point about development is making a racial argument, than it is to point out obvious facts about development. Which is to say, your problematizing a point about development, as if it were racial, says something about your own conflations more than it does about mine.
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this is true but then again maybe youre being paranoid and he wasnt trying to bait you
 
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version said:
"For every asshole traipsing through Mexico City brandishing The Savage Detectives, there was someone else who knew enough to bury his copy deep in his luggage and, if asked, to pretend never to have heard of it."

This sort of hyper self-consciousness you see in American liberals just seems to betray how much of a thing race is for them. I mean, the guy's talking about hiding a book by a Latin American author out of fear that Latin American people might see it...
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its seriously demented. theyre fucked in the head and should be incinerated. their literary culture is worse than englands
 
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Version's the paranoid one, you seen his comments in this thread about conspiracies to keep Brooklynites writing autofiction??
 
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