MissAnthropy
2011-05-05 22:06:11
I agree with your sentiment, but this sword cuts both ways so I ask when will Americans be allowed moral authority? Or will they similarly be permanently bound to the history of slavery, and the slaughter of indigenous tribes?
The common denominator here is the use of negative historical events to shout-down, malign, and silence nations of (selectively) white, Western origin. For example, how much do we hear about the Crusades and yet nothing about the Islamic incursions into Iberia and France that occurred before that? And when you do hear of it, it’s seldom negative — we are to believe that the Islamic invasion of Spain led to flourishing and advanced culture, but the Crusades were 100% negative.
