The continuous use of propaganda against China, the Soviet Union, communism, to describe and criticize current day American events that have too many domestic precedents to count, fall right into that category. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, and Kamala Harris, the leader of the Democratic party, calling Trump a communist, surveillance and censorship methods of the US government being compared to China, the disappearing of people through a secret police like ICE being compared to the KGB: all examples of our imperial projection. When in reality, the United States of America has two far right political parties, accusing each other of being communist, because they both were educated on the simple propaganda that communism is bad, and that's all they wish to express. The United States government having always built the most expansive surveillance and disinformation system in world history, utilizing that to make political opposition, journalists, and immigrants vanish, yet we continue the framing that these actions make us like China.
What are we, a bunch of Asians? Arabs? Muslims? Russians? (Barbarians)?
To add insult to injury, the middle east never came to us in the west, China or the rest of South East Asia never came to us in the west, South America never came to us in the west, Africa never came to us in the west. The indigenous people of Australia, or generally Oceania, and the Americas, never came to us in the west. We came to the so-called global south and either turned it into the west during the age of colonialism and apartheid, or now turn it into our imperial periphery in the age of neocolonialism, basically making entire continents into our personal quarry. The constant wars, far right and conservative sentiment, religious fundamentalism are the result of our colonialism and meddling. That is the destruction we caused. From women's subjugation having no precedent before colonization in most of Africa, to native Americans being far more civilized than the European settlers. Women were allowed in universities in Africa, their expulsion wasn't even a debate, before the colonizers came. The Iolani Palace in Hawaii had running water, plumbing, and electricity before the White House did, but certainly we must uphold the lie that they were the barbarians, after all, if they weren't, wouldn't that illegitimize our entire existence on their continent? Yes, it does, and a truth should not be silenced because it's uncomfortable, especially then it must be stated. Imperialism wasn't done due to the racist beliefs that those we were colonizing are barbaric, the lie that they were barbarians was invented as a tool to justify the capitalist necessity of colonization. Yet exposing that is not the political purpose of the moderate, and hence they will never bring forward any meaningful change.