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I don't think that physical and cultural genocide is exclusive to the Victorian era. How much difference is there in reality between the Victorian drive to civi
by atlantic 11y ago
I don't think that physical and cultural genocide is exclusive to the Victorian era. How much difference is there in reality between the Victorian drive to civilize and Christianize, and the modern Western impulse to ram "democracy" and "freedom" down the throats of unwilling societies at the point of a gun? If anything, they were a lot less hypocritical than we are.
- mikeash 11y agoI'd wager that India and China would say there's a pretty big difference between then and now.
- Swizec 11y agoWould the middle east also consider the difference positive? Hell, the NATO bombings in Serbia happened just 15 years ago. That was pretty damn close to home for some of us. I have many friends who remember the bombings. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia And 20 years ago NATO bombed a different part of Yugoslavia that was even closer to where I grew up. [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deliberate_Force I am really happy that Slovenia was able to secede from Yugoslavia without NATO bombings. Although I do remember hiding in the cellar one night when the sirens went off. Luckily no actual air raid occured.
- sageikosa 11y agoYes. Now they get to be on the semi-dominant end of the spectrum.