Pants-of-dog wrote:It's a bathing suit. Get over it.
...The killing of indigenous poeple is ongoing, as is the destrcution of indigenous cultures. And a disturbingly high number of black men in the US will have to work in unpaid and forced labour during their lives...
Within the worldview of liberalism, this is the obvious and appropriate response. A couple of points should be noted, however: the annihilation of native cultures and slavery were integral features of liberalism, and mass European immigration was its enabling process.
The existence of massive numbers of European immigrants was sufficient in itself to destroy native societies in the Americas (and Africa). Deliberate genocide, relocation, and cultural suppression sped up the process, to be sure - but the mere existence of a hegemonic European state in North America spelled inevitable doom for these peoples. Visionary native leaders foresaw this process and resisted as best they could.
European culture was totalitarian, and swept everything in its path. Contemporary Islam is very much a totalitarian ideology - every bit as much as the European imperialism that swept the Americas. This is a cognitive bridge too far for Western liberalism. The fact that Islam is not monolithic is as irrelevant as the many internecine wars among the Europeans
It does not require every Muslim to be evil for this totalitarian sweep, no more than it required every European farmer to be evil when they settled on traditional native lands. Cultural imperialism does not require navies or legions of soldiers (although these can help). It requires
numbers. Numbers and the settler mentality. The PAC dictum "one settler, one bullet" is harsh, but logical.
I don't subscribe to the superiority of European liberalism, so I raise no objection to Europe's path.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci