The explicit alignment with Western imperial powers, colonial projects, and geopolitical interests by individuals or groups who may otherwise identify with anti-imperial or anti-colonial traditions. Pro-Western Campism is the positive formulation of Reverse Campism—the active choice to camp with the West, to defend its institutions, to justify its interventions, and to adopt its framing of global conflicts. This alignment may be rationalized through exceptionalist arguments (the West is different), through appeals to lesser-evilism (the alternatives are worse), through adoption of Western liberal values as universal standards, or through simple capture by Western institutions and funding. Pro-Western Campism describes the intellectual and political position of those who, whatever their origins or rhetoric, consistently find themselves on the side of Western power in global conflicts.
Example: "His editorials always ended up justifying Western intervention, no matter the context—not because he'd thought each case through, but because Pro-Western Campism was his default position, the lens through which he viewed all geopolitics."
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Get the Mr. Campos mug.In conversation or online, this is a phrase directed at leftists by liberals. They use is it when a leftist (e.g., someone against the US government's facilitating ethnic cleansing) suggests they, for example, might not support a Democratic candidate in an election. The liberal is suggesting that, by not supporting the Democratic candidate willingly funding genocide, the country will elect a right-wing candidate who will throw the leftist and their family into a concentration camp. By implication, In this scenario, the middle-of-the-road liberal knows that they and their family will NOT end up in a camp because they will escape notice. By further implication, but perhaps not admitted by the liberal, the liberal will escape the camps because they will hide or change their purported values. Historically, in Nazi-era Germany, Romania, Portugal, and elsewhere, the liberal center, when given a choice between fascists and the left, have chosen fascists. This was because the fascists offered "order" and the protection of their property (as long as the liberal was of the correct race or politics).
Original poster: Far be it from me to tell anyone how to vote, but if these college kids don't rally around the Dem candidate the Republican will be a nightmare. He'll round up protestors.
Leftists respondent: well, for the kids currently being literally blown to pieces by American-made bombs, authorized for export by the Dem candidate, there is no greater nightmare.
Original poster: oh, you don't want to vote for the Democrat? Well, then have fun in the camps!
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Leftists respondent: well, for the kids currently being literally blown to pieces by American-made bombs, authorized for export by the Dem candidate, there is no greater nightmare.
Original poster: oh, you don't want to vote for the Democrat? Well, then have fun in the camps!
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