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[–] -1 points 4 months ago (9 children)

I mean yeah the difference was that westerners came from further away, had a very different culture, ethnicity, language and so on, and most notably subjugated people on a much larger scale.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (8 children)

    In other words, the Europeans did it harder.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    So far, yes. Although other regions and people have had their own atrocities not to be ignored by history or awareness. My point still stands that these behaviors are not and have never been uniquely western or even uniquely homo sapien. Nature is fucked and so far, the more intelligent an organism becomes the more fucked it gets.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    So the point of your statement is to minimize the atrocities committed by the Europeans on the natives, got it.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Not really, someone was saying these were uniquely western behaviors. Unfortunately they aren't. It's more so a recognition of reality as it is than a denial or diminishing of anything. To argue it is a western only thing would be diminishing the atrocities not committed by western powers.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    No they weren't. Literally nobody in this thread has said that.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I am paraphrasing, no one wrote it like that letter for letter but read around. There are more than a few moments of people arguing it's a western specific thing. That nothing like this happened before western countries started colonialism or western expansion.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Lol. So you're responding to a vibe you got. Good work dude, you sure showed that vague feeling you manifested what's what.

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