Aral Balkan
May I suggest a new term “Turksplaining?” Seems to be quite in vogue with the elections and whatnot. Apparently leads to instant blocks.
(Don’t presume to explain to me how things are not as bad as I might think they are from your comfortable perch in some Western country – wait for it, this shit is heading your way too before too long, by the way – when I can’t even visit the place where I still have family because of the “democratically elected” 20-year autocrat.)
Aral Balkan
@1dalm Oh, make no mistake, the EU stringing Turkey along for however many decades due to its racism and xenophobia was a huge factor in Erdoğan coming to power.
He didn’t need much to make the case the EU would never admit a majority-Muslim country and that they should embrace the Islamic world instead, who were ready to welcome them with open arms.
Dallas (Join Something IRL)
To think they are a NATO member state and almost joined the EU.
Aral Balkan
@cjk Well, none that aren‘t now blocked, at least ;)
Christian Kruse
@aral there srsly people explaining Turkey to you? Wow.
Aral Balkan
@nellie_m Nah, you’re right, the term should really be Westplaining :)
(I’ll edit the post to update it as it makes more sense. Thanks!)
nellie-m
I find this term confusing because if mansplaining is a man without expertise explaining things, then turksplaining would mean someone from Turkey without expertise explaining things, and it seems you use it just the other way round?
I can’t come up with an alternative, though 🤷♀️
０７６萌ＳＮＳ is a social network, courtesy of ０７６. It runs on GNU social, version 2.0.2-beta0, available under the GNU Affero General Public License.
All ０７６萌ＳＮＳ content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.