The topic of slavery itself highlights the double-standard in how people talk about problematic behaviors (that I made reference to earlier)
Where, when misdeeds are done by the perceived "privileged" demographics, it gets the "no punches pulled" criticism, but when the perceived "disprivileged" groups participated (and still do participate) in the problematic behavior (and often times to a worse degree), it's the kid gloves treatment.
This is identity politics. Having a skewed view of the world through the lens of power relations based on religion, race, sex, gender and class. Which dismisses all the nuance (factors) about why people do what they do.
So slavery is given new meanings which did not apply back then. Its vitually re-writing history and reality. But the lies can easily be exposed with the facts. Which is happening now as more people question the narratives.
On the topic of slavery, "White people in the US" is where all of the conversations were/are focused...but the reality is, the US was one of the smaller offenders. Portugal and Spain were far worse in terms of volume, and Portuguese and Dutch were far worse in terms of brutality (even compared to the baseline brutality of the practice). The US was one of the few places (if not the only) where, among slaves, the birth rates exceeded the death rates.
The US and Britain were the least offenders and in fact the ones who began to end slavery. Thats how twisted the narrative has become by ideologues out of university who are brain washing young people.
Every nation had slaves. American Indian and African tribes enslaved each other and were brutal and barbaric. White Europeans were enslaved by Muslims in the Barbary wars. Many Muslims nations in the 3rd world still have slaves to this day. Where are the protestors on all these inhumane nations.
Where that ties into this conversation, much of the conflict with the Muslim world often gets chalked up to our modern foreign policy being the cause, and "we'd all just live in harmony if those darn Western colonialists hadn't meddled in the 1940s, and the US didn't have an interventionist policy"
We would not live in harmony with some of these radical ideologhies no matter what the west did. Its an ideological war and not one about who is most virtuous. All are fallen and guilty. All the world have done what they accuse the west of doing. They are hypocrites. There is no noble warrior or race or groups over other identities.
The whole identity thing is the problem. Is the ideological belief and religion. It divides people into groups pitted against each other over subjectively percieved wrongs and oppressions and labelling some groups bad and others good based on skin color and now gender. A new moral system that is based on hate.
When in reality, that conflict would have still existed even if we were isolationists this whole time. The Barbary pirates were taking American slaves when America was still barely even a country
Yes humans are fallen and will divide by nature. Fight over land and pocessions. The entire world was based on waring tribes and then nations against each other. Entire empires oppressing millions throughout history.
But no one ever mentions this. Just the bad white colonialist. They have been brain washed by modern ideologues from academia. Which stemmed from the cultural revolutions of the 60's. basically a rebellion against God. The Tower of Babel.
Hitchens sums it up quite well.
Point of reference, the US was took 400k slaves -- which, to clarify, nobody is denying is a terrible act and shameful part of our history. But Spain, Portugal, The Dutch, and the Barbary Pirates (who took American and European slaves, for no other reason than "because you're infidels, and our book says we can") each took millions.
Yet, every time there's any conversation about slavery, the focus is almost exclusively on the US's history in the practice.
I think thats because its present time and present time is always more real and relevant. In some ways its wanting to live in the past. Wanting to make out the present is still as bad as the past. Not seeing the positive changes then looking for common ways to get along today and move on. Which means forgiveness and only Christ can achieve this.
Fundementally this is definitely a culture war. As to what culture, what is the best culture that the US and west should adopt is the big question that everyone is fighting over.
I think as the world has become smaller and other cultures are mixing this is leading to the big question as people are losing their identity. Its a confused mess of conflicting ideas and beliefs. All I know is that a nation must be united in their culture and belief. Otherwise no matter what there will be conflict.
In that sense you are right. No matter how the world evolved it would have turned out the same way where different cultures began to encroach on each other and either had to let go or adjust their culture. Or fight for their culture. The more western nations invite other cultures and the more those cultures increase the more conflict will happen.
I think this is linked back to the unreal idea of the academic ideologues who believed in some DEI uptopia that could somehow magically create people and harmony. Because they never really believed in God or any truth and thought society, culture and reality itself was a social construction and could be reimagined by human as the gods of their own world.
