someone mentioned a british styled empire in india as a viable precedent.
that’s pretty ridiculous. your argument gives credit for gandhi’s peace struggle to the british empire?
if a culture gives the world buddhism and secular peaceful protest in exchange for colonial oppression, wouldn’t you say that’s a quality intrinsic to a culture, not something bequeathed to it by an invader?
that’s pretty lazy and arrogant thinking.
should we take credit for civilizing black slaves and chinese railroad workers too ?
here’s samuel huntington, someone people love quoting about a ‘war of civilizations’:
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.”
