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Only in the West is valuing (and wanting to protect) your own culture now seen as extremist and hateful. For everyone else and pretty much all of human history
by lazyeye 3y ago
Only in the West is valuing (and wanting to protect) your own culture now seen as extremist and hateful. For everyone else and pretty much all of human history it is and was the norm.
- 082349872349872 3y agoHow does xenophobia either value or protect the West's own post-parochial culture?
- lazyeye 3y agoThe idea that valuing your own culture is "parochial" and bigoted, exactly encapsulates the point I was making.
- 082349872349872 3y agoIt is possible, even easy, to value your own culture without being afraid of strangers. It's the latter, not the former, that constitutes at best xenophobia, and at worst bigotry. What would make doing one without the other difficult?