Arcanepotato comments on American 250 🇺🇸

[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I see. There is no difference except for the differences.

Like for instance the Aztecs were extremely brutal in wiping out other tribes and enslavement as well as torture but no one really complains about that today.

In contrast to the Aztecs the colonial powers are still in power and are still enacting violence and genocide.

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[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (6 children)

If you want to argue a point I did not make then that changes the discussion. My point was, and still is that these acts are not unique to westerners. There have been lands controlled by others much longer than 500 years. There's been rape, genocide, enslavement, and torture long before a human set foot in Europe. These behaviors aren't unique to white or European people or honestly even homo sapiens.

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[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 3 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I was directly replying to a statement you made. Did I misunderstand that statement?

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[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The main point is that genocide, rape, torture, war, murder, slavery and so on isn't unique to western people or even homo sapiens. These are things humans and likely our ancestors have been doing before we ever left Africa.

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[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Okay but that's not what I replying to.

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[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's kinda been my one and only point this entire time that I keep just repeating, maybe with more verbosity which has spawned a lot of discussion not about the point I'm making.

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[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

So what, your point that these types of problems existed in some form before colonization and that they exist in other places means that there is no way colonization made things worse? Both things can't be true?

And I guess you weren't actually asking why people don't harp on the Aztecs because you don't actually care to learn?

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[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago*

Never said that. All atrocities are bad and for sure western powers have committed the most harm by number to themselves and others, by percentage I'm actually not sure. It's partly a function of recent growth of the global human population. These things were happening since forever but there were many fewer people. I'm not saying that's the only factor. Technology to sail and use guns as well as mainly zoonotic diseases played a massive role as well. Once again, all atrocities are bad and shouldn't have happened. People should work together for their mutual benefit.

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