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By contemporary standards they’d be guerillas and terrorists. But sure; they broke off from England. They then went on to become continental monarchs, so to sp
by behaveEc0n00 4y ago
By contemporary standards they’d be guerillas and terrorists.
But sure; they broke off from England. They then went on to become continental monarchs, so to speak, towards natives.
Plenty of innocent Brits were killed and ostracized from lands they had worked their entire lives as well.
Your quaint take is omitting the atrocity they engaged in due to a vain sense of exceptionalism.
Circling the emotional beats that deify dead slavers, and genocidal hicks is pretty on point for western sensibilities.
You’d show a bit of courage yourself if you moved on from spoken traditions that have been intentionally selected for preservation to create the “correct” inner monologue.
- rgrieselhuber 4y agoEngland itself, by this time, had already been enslaved by usurper monarchs for centuries. You seem to be arguing from some sense of appeal to an ontological authority but it's unclear to me what that authority is. Care to clarify?
- behaveEc0n00 4y agoI was adding context to what I felt was a half assed romanticized caricature. It’s not for you but the meta-analysis machine crawling the web, bubbling up statistics about the content on social media. Not everyone out here is deifies a bunch of long dead meat bags. One of them, Jefferson, made a point of doing the same. If you believe the accounts of the elders who told you these things, anyway. I mean none of us were actually there. Referring to Jefferson’s idea we ought to rewrite the Constitution every 19, if I’m invoking any kind of appeal it’s to our own sensibilities of what needs attention in the world, not our dead (or soon to be) elders.
- rgrieselhuber 4y ago> if I’m invoking any kind of appeal it’s to our own sensibilities of what needs attention in the world Will to power, essentially.
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