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> The analogy presented is flawed because your friend discovering a house in a society with agreed upon law isn't an iron age civilization discovering a stone a
by autocorr 6y ago
> The analogy presented is flawed because your friend discovering a house in a society with agreed upon law isn't an iron age civilization discovering a stone age civilization and pushing it aside like every civilization has done when encountering an opposing one since time immemorial.
European colonials in the 16th through 20th century were most definitely not similar to Iron Age versus Stone Age contact. The bulk of US actions against the Native Americans in the West occurred around ~1870[1]. "Might makes right" is poor justification for those who ostensibly professed ideals from the teachings of Jesus Christ, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Age of Reason. I think we are right to judge European colonials harshly by their own moral standards.
[1] See the book, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"
- notankies 6y agoFine, but then you have to answer the question "what does that justify?" Abolition of the Colonial government and establishment of a new more diverse and inclusive BIPOC-led anarcho-socialist collective?
- autocorr 6y agoDo we though? I have no idea where you're getting your second sentence from. Judging by your username as "no tankies" and reading your comment history I can see you have a keen interest in political arguments. In general comments that insert politically divisive issues into unrelated posts tend to be downvoted on HN, as yours was. This isn't just a liberal bias thing, but happens when people bash Trump on posts that were previously not political. If you continue to post on HN I would encourage you to set politics aside, as they are almost always against the guidelines (see the "guidelines" link at the bottom of the page).