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Thank you for identifying this most insidious of tropes: exculpatory relativism for everyone else, but harsh judgment for Western history. I can’t help but conc
by marcoperaza 8y ago
Thank you for identifying this most insidious of tropes: exculpatory relativism for everyone else, but harsh judgment for Western history. I can’t help but conclude that a profound Western self-loathing underlies it.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoIf that bit about "self-loathing" refers to me, you are way off the mark. I have no reason to feel guilty about collonialism. I am Greek and my people never egnaged in it. Instead, we were ourselves enslaved by the Ottomans during the time that other Europeans raided far away lands, killed their people and nicked their stuff. Put that in your assumption pipe and smoke it.
- marcoperaza 8y agoTo be fair, I omitted another thesis which on reflection actually seems more likely: a vilification of the victors qua victors. It seems that all else being equal, we will condemn one murderous conqeusting people while exculpating another, simply because the former triumphed over the latter.
- YeGoblynQueenne 8y agoExcuse me, but I am very confused. Which murderous conquesting people am I exculpating?