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Hym Iam "Wesker? Is that supposed to be Wesker? If that's Wesker, they knew they would piss me off with that. Like... He technically has a leather vest and sunglasses but... What is he a Mafia Don? That can't possibly be Wesker."
by Hym Iam March 2, 2026
Get the Wesker? mug.The use of Western philosophical, scientific, and cultural frameworks to dismiss non-Western perspectives as inferior, primitive, or irrational. Western Sophism positions Western ways of knowing as universal, treating all others as provincial. It's sophistry with a colonial history: using the tools of Western reason to exclude the voices of those colonized by it. The sophism lies in the pretense of universality while serving particular interests.
"They dismissed indigenous knowledge as unscientific, not realizing that 'scientific' was just their word for 'Western.' Western Sophism: universalizing the particular, naturalizing the provincial. The sophistry is in the pretense: calling your perspective 'objective' while ignoring everyone else's."
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When someone from the political West learns about a country’s politics from a couple of TikToks and then explains it like they’re the expert to people who actually live under that regime.
Usually involves disregarding firsthand experience while trusting a viral video, headline, infographic, or thread instead.
Usually involves disregarding firsthand experience while trusting a viral video, headline, infographic, or thread instead.
“An Iranian woman told Jim what life under the ajatollah regime is actually like and he immediately started westsplaining, sending her a TikTok and saying ‘This TikTok explains it perfectly.’
by HeldisHeld March 16, 2026
Get the Westsplaining mug.The established, institutionalized set of beliefs, values, and practices that define mainstream Western civilization's self-understanding—the often-unexamined assumptions that shape what counts as normal, rational, and legitimate in Western societies. Western orthodoxy includes commitments to individualism, democracy, capitalism, human rights, progress, science, and secularism—not as contingent historical developments but as simply "how things should be." It frames Western history as the story of progress toward freedom and reason, non-Western societies as catching up or falling behind, and Western institutions (markets, elections, courts) as the natural models for all societies. Like all orthodoxies, Western orthodoxy serves to provide coherence and identity, but it can also function as ideology—making Western dominance seem natural and inevitable, obscuring violence and exploitation, and delegitimizing alternative ways of organizing society. Understanding Western orthodoxy is essential for recognizing the assumptions that shape global politics, economics, and culture—and for imagining alternatives.
Example: "He assumed that democracy and capitalism were simply the best ways to organize society—not because he'd examined alternatives, but because Western orthodoxy had made them seem like common sense. The orthodoxy was invisible to him because he was inside it."
by Dumu The Void March 17, 2026
Get the Western Orthodoxy mug.Weston, a name known by many. To us? An internet lolcow famous by uniting people through the hatred and suffering of himself, bringing upon great jokes. A martyr, For the creation of Orology and the theories that follow (Ex. Recurve Theory) Weston's name has brought so much negative energy shrouding it, even daring to say it in public is a social death sentence. A work around has been crafted by UPOC Scientists, "We****" is a popular choice to avoid saying THE name. Bleep is also another fun one, a name who will be remembered but spoken by none.
"Weston bro you ARE the girlfriend!"
"Did you just lie to my fkn face!?" - Weston
"Weston goons to the world's smallest violin"
"Did you just lie to my fkn face!?" - Weston
"Weston goons to the world's smallest violin"
by spacedouglasser March 25, 2026
Get the Weston mug.Weston, a name known by many. To us? An internet lolcow famous by uniting people through the hatred and suffering of himself, bringing upon great jokes. A martyr, For the creation of Orology and the theories that follow (Ex. Recurve Theory) Weston's name has brought so much negative energy shrouding it, even daring to say it in public is a social death sentence. A work around has been crafted by UPOC Scientists, "We****" is a popular choice to avoid saying THE name. Bleep is also another fun one, a name who will be remembered but spoken by none.
"Weston bro you ARE the girlfriend!"
"Did you just lie to my fkn face!?" - Weston
"Weston goons to the world's smallest violin"
"Did you just lie to my fkn face!?" - Weston
"Weston goons to the world's smallest violin"
by spacedouglasser March 25, 2026
Get the Weston mug.The shittiest public school in Guelph, this ass school has wannabe gangsters and simps who sucks each others dicks, this school is home to the gays with multiple different types of species, the white people here are deadly and all the brown people are white washed and faggots (except the Punjab's)
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