I did say that GG&S is intellectually dishonest. I absolutely agree that he started from an unjustifiable place and then worked to support it.
You children are clueless. Diamond has his faults, but indeed weapons, horses and diseases decimated native population across "conquered" lands. The invading whites were filthy, never bathing, barely whipping after dumps .... white males protected the diseases they carried.
There were societies from every culture willing to subjugate people. Stop romanticizing and idolizing non-Europeans just because they lost in the game of conquest. It's actually
Because the Europeans were naturally cruel. Before the Europeans, the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas live peacefully amongst each other and were not used to violence and exploitation. Read some history .
hah hah -- many will miss your sarcasm but they likely never met an Aztec, or Mayan, or...
There were societies from every culture willing to subjugate people. Stop romanticizing and idolizing non-Europeans just because they lost in the game of conquest. It's actually
exactly. and just because Native Americans * were * subjugated and slaughtered, doesn't mean they didn't practice cruelty and excess themselves.
Question: what happened to all the North American mound communities that had already collapsed before any Europeans arrived?
What was so different that they could? Europe was a backwater part of the world through medieval times. How it did spring board to dominating the world?
It was the shoes. Europeans had running shoes so they could run faster than other peoples.
‘Tis the season … for New Yorkers to engage in a woke debate about Christopher Columbus. Democratic socialist Assemblywoman Marcela Mitaynes (D-Brooklyn) formally introduced legislation…
Europeans had three victories: * Crusades. * Genghis Khan was not able or maybe he didn't try to conquer Europe in its entirety. * Hannibal was not able to conquer Europe in its entirety and was eventually forced to retreat if I correctly recall his history.
While the Crusader States were in some ways a workshop for colonial policies, I wouldn't really call the Crusades a "win" for European powers in the long term. Main benefit was probably that it stopped feudal lords from killing each other for a generation or two.
Not getting ransacked and oppressed by the Mongol armies was a definite advantage. For example, Baghdad was sacked and never really recovered - their population didn't rebound to pre-Mongol sack levels until the 20th century. Russia, the most backwards part of Europe, was under Mongol domination for centuries.
Hannibal was not really African in the way we would use the term today - he was from the same cultural sphere as his Roman enemies. In Ancient times, you can think of the Mediterranean Basin as more of a "continent" than Europe or Africa was during the same period.
I was counting on a poster to state something similar regarding Hannibal. He probably looked like a brother or close cousin or uncle to Moammar Gaddafi. Thing is, M Gaddafi's military was over 50% Black African and same for Hannibal's military.
You’re proving my point if you’re pointing to Medium.com opinion pieces or people tearing down statues as majority Democrat positions.
AdultInTheRoom, no substance as always.
The entire Democratic party rallied behind the BLM movement.
You can bury your empty head in the sand all you like it doesn't change reality.
Supporting BLM means the majority Democrats have the stance that, “Before the Europeans, the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas live peacefully amongst each other and were not used to violence and exploitation.”?
Do you not see the ridiculousness in conflating these? Because it’s obvious.
While the Crusader States were in some ways a workshop for colonial policies, I wouldn't really call the Crusades a "win" for European powers in the long term. Main benefit was probably that it stopped feudal lords from killing each other for a generation or two.
Not getting ransacked and oppressed by the Mongol armies was a definite advantage. For example, Baghdad was sacked and never really recovered - their population didn't rebound to pre-Mongol sack levels until the 20th century. Russia, the most backwards part of Europe, was under Mongol domination for centuries.
Hannibal was not really African in the way we would use the term today - he was from the same cultural sphere as his Roman enemies. In Ancient times, you can think of the Mediterranean Basin as more of a "continent" than Europe or Africa was during the same period.
I was counting on a poster to state something similar regarding Hannibal. He probably looked like a brother or close cousin or uncle to Moammar Gaddafi. Thing is, M Gaddafi's military was over 50% Black African and same for Hannibal's military.
The Carthaginians were Phoenician. They didn't come from Africa they settled there.
The notion that the Carthaginians were black is absurd.
The Sahara desert prevented any actual black people from making it to North Africa.
The ones that made it to Egypt up the Nile didn't travel west because it was a desert.
The entire Democratic party rallied behind the BLM movement.
You can bury your empty head in the sand all you like it doesn't change reality.
Supporting BLM means the majority Democrats have the stance that, “Before the Europeans, the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas live peacefully amongst each other and were not used to violence and exploitation.”?
Do you not see the ridiculousness in conflating these? Because it’s obvious.
Democrats will support any woke position no matter how idiotic it is because they think it makes them good people.
It's ridiculous to support a movement that burned down half of America because a career criminal with COVID OD'd in police custody. Yet here you are.
Supporting BLM means the majority Democrats have the stance that, “Before the Europeans, the indigenous peoples of Africa and the Americas live peacefully amongst each other and were not used to violence and exploitation.”?
Do you not see the ridiculousness in conflating these? Because it’s obvious.
Democrats will support any woke position no matter how idiotic it is because they think it makes them good people.
It's ridiculous to support a movement that burned down half of America because a career criminal with COVID OD'd in police custody. Yet here you are.
Supporting BLM’s stance for police accountability != supporting “burning down half of America”. There you go with your faulty conflations again.
Chauvin is a murderer, by the way. Talk about burying your empty head in sand…
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