| ▲ | Tangurena2 5 hours ago | |
As a nation, we're still pissed off that those uppity dark skinned people (/s) overthrew our businesses and replaced the corrupt politicians installed by our government/businesses. Generally, when other nations do that, we invade them. Repeating that pattern in Central America led to coining the phrase "banana republic" to describe it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic Also, we're still pissed off at Iran for deposing (in 1979) the dictator that we installed in 1953. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta... Whenever America acts "funny" (or irrationally, if you prefer) and does something politically/militarily that makes no sense to the average person, the answer is almost always "white supremacy". In the past, that could be waved away by mumbling "we're fighting communism", but after the collapse of the Soviet Union & Warsaw Pact, we needed a new excuse. Sometimes "fighting terrorism" is used instead, but the T-word never gets applied to white people. | ||
| ▲ | janderson215 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Nice try attributing it to racism. > Therefore, the term banana republic is a pejorative descriptor for a servile oligarchy that abets and supports, for kickbacks, the exploitation of large-scale plantation agriculture, especially banana cultivation. | ||
| ▲ | reducesuffering 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> As a nation, we're still pissed off that those uppity dark skinned people What? This is currently purely on Cuban-Americans as a voting bloc in Florida... The recent escalation is due to Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American, being Secretary of State. | ||