minus-squareEch@lemmy.catopolitics @lemmy.world•Congressman Brandon Gill tells mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani "Go back to the Third World" linkfedilinkarrow-up17·edit-24 days agoThe term is pretty racist itself, since it was created to refer to tertiary countryies in the Cold War, but soon came to simultaneously suggest those countries were lesser. Calling a failing state “3rd world” just further perpetuates that. linkfedilink
minus-squareEch@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.world•lemm.ee deadlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 days agoAlso, .ee is the TLD for Estonia. linkfedilink
minus-squareEch@lemmy.catoWorld News@lemmy.world•US to withdraw from NATO under Republican billlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·5 days agoI might if Russia had a vested interest in taking my socks, and the dryer had a history of justifying Russia’s sock stealing. linkfedilink
The term is pretty racist itself, since it was created to refer to tertiary countryies in the Cold War, but soon came to simultaneously suggest those countries were lesser. Calling a failing state “3rd world” just further perpetuates that.