Posted on 10/20/2021 3:49:30 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
In many ways, Columbus Day, which recently passed, has become emblematic not just of the accusation that Columbus was a racist who inaugurated a genocidal campaign against the natives, but a reminder that virtually all Europeans preceding the great era of woke were horrible people.
This conflation was especially on display during the summer of 2020, following the death of George Floyd, when not just Columbus's statues, but the statues of many traditional heroes of Western and American civilization were attacked on the accusation that the men they represent were all racists and somehow involved in or approved of the slave trade of Africans.
The problem with this entrenched view is that it ignores one simple fact: Europeans did not defeat and uproot American Indians, enslave Africans, and colonize the rest because they lived according to some sort of unprecedented bellicose creed specific to whites and alien to nonwhites. Quite the contrary: they did so because they — as opposed to Natives, blacks, etc. — were able to do so. Capability is the fundamental difference.
Consider: Had pre-Colombian American Indians developed galleys for transoceanic travel, or advanced firearms, or compasses, or organized military structures and stratagems; and had they arrived on the shores of, say, "Dark Age" Europe — what would they have done? Would they have conquered and subjugated, or would they have looked at the inferior pale savages and "respected" them in the name of "diversity," leaving them unmolested?
What if sub-Saharan blacks were technologically or militarily more advanced than their northern neighbors in Europe during the premodern era, and therefore could easily have subjugated and enslaved them? Would they have done so, or would they have left them in peace in the name of "multiculturalism"?
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Survival of the Fittest
I never understood the need to judge people from the past by today’s standards especially knowing that those in the future will someday judge us by their standards.
Different times, different place, different moral standards.
Look at today’s world and which cultures have evolved (for want of a better word) from the standards of the past to today’s standards and which cultures are still stuck with the standards of the past.
Western cultures has evolved not in spite of our ancestors but because many were great thinkers and could see the fault in their society and sought to change it.
These were men not gods and so they were not perfect but they still deserve our honor and respect.
Many radicals consider your premise to be faulty. They believe that any ethnic group was capable of world domination and colonialism but chose not to. Only whites chose that path, due to inherent evil.
Slavery/George Floyd/genocide are not the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. They are tools to create chaos, dissatisfaction, disloyalty and the desire for change. Happy, well fed, and satisfied people are not interested in Revolution. What do you think is going on now?
Exactly right! This is about nothing BUT the revolution.
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