Nope. I’m not going to use the imperialist talking point referring to the Middle East as "west Asia" because I’m not an imperialist and because EUROPE IS WEST ASIA.

Look at the map.

There is nothing that makes Europe a different geographical continent. There are no natural boundaries. It's not even on a separate tectonic plate. It's on the Eurasian plate (unlike the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian subcontinent and other parts way further east like Eastern Siberia). EUROPE IS WEST ASIA.

Notice how all of the major continents are on their own tectonic plate?

The only reason why Europe is held apart as its own “continent” is because white people live there.

Except that Europe is actually physically tiny. In fact, all Global North countries are much smaller than they are presented. And ALL COUNTRIES have a great weight of “history and traditions”. That’s no reasonable excuse to name Europe a separate continent. Calling Europe different from Asia because of its “great physical size” and “the weight of its history and traditions” is pure white supremacy and imperialism and I'm not doing it.

Let me show this to you again. This is how Global North countries (and their allies) are usually presented:

And this is what their actual size is:

Now, the term "Middle East" isn't right for that particular region of the world either, of course, because it continues to center Europe, but it's still better than calling it “west Asia” which erases that fact that Europe is west Asia…the "shithole" of Asia, if you will.*

It's unfortunate for the rest of Asia, of course, but the truth had to come out at some point that in the continent of Asia there is a “shithole” called Europe that contains people with abominable traditions, horrific history, and light-skin color that they bizarrely think makes them the master race.

If we're going to re-term the Middle East then maybe it's southern central Asia. or maybe it's actually not southern central Asia, considering that Arabia is on its own tectonic plate but the rest of the Middle East is not. Some have taken to calling it South West Asia North Africa (SWANA), but that doesn’t make any sense either since the Middle East is not on the African tectonic plate and Arabia itself is not on the Asian plate. They include Egypt in that category but that makes no sense either since Egypt is very clearly in Africa, not the Middle East.

Instead of following white supremacist labels, maybe we should ask the people of that region what they want to call themselves?

Stop letting white people decide how the world works. Europe is west Asia. It’s a shithole with violent ancestors who performed violent acts all over the world and whose descendants continue to perform violent acts all over the world. The last thing we need is the influence of these west Asians getting in the way of progress and collective liberation.

*Donald Trump coined the phrase “shithole countries” during his tenure as President of the United States of America.