http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35515769Berbers are finally reclaiming a place in the governance of their own lands after centuries of Arab colonization. Sadly, to western lefties, the idea of colonization by non-European is a contradiction in terms...
Quote from: Pete at Home on February 07, 2016, 12:59:37 PMhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35515769Berbers are finally reclaiming a place in the governance of their own lands after centuries of Arab colonization. Sadly, to western lefties, the idea of colonization by non-European is a contradiction in terms...Ah yes, those pesky western lefties. They do get around.
Quote from: AI Wessex on February 07, 2016, 02:04:44 PMQuote from: Pete at Home on February 07, 2016, 12:59:37 PMhttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35515769Berbers are finally reclaiming a place in the governance of their own lands after centuries of Arab colonization. Sadly, to western lefties, the idea of colonization by non-European is a contradiction in terms...Ah yes, those pesky western lefties. They do get around.They do? I had the opposite impression, I.e.that they have never expanded their horizons or tried to conceive how different cultures conceive of things. In "multiculturalist" constructs, "Other" cultures exist not for their own sake but solely for opposing Western narratives and points of view.mark Twain inception said that travel is the sure cure for bigotry. It's not as sure as it used to , but it's an excellent start.
It's not like their counterparts on the right are well known for their cultural enlightenment.
Sadly, to western lefties, the idea of colonization by non-European is a contradiction in terms...
Quote from: Pete at Home on February 07, 2016, 12:59:37 PMSadly, to western lefties, the idea of colonization by non-European is a contradiction in terms...Could you show an instance where Lefties consider the idea of colonization by non-Europeans a contradiction in terms? I have yet to hear that idea. In fact, I would think the issue of Tibetan Independence utterly disproves that.Or are you under the impression that lack of addressing all the world's woes means that Western Lefties don't really care?
Ask Pyr if it's possible for a nonwesterner to colonize or for a nonwhite person to be racist. Then duck and cover.
Is that why Berbers and Copts get no sympathy from the academic left when they face issues such as being punished for teaching their own language in their own land by the foreigners that rule over them? Treated as inferiors and coolies?
Arabs are the ones who freaking introduced Europeans and Americans to the con eat of blacks as a "slave race." Our concept of racism comes from the same place as we got our numbering system.
Why would the Koran specifically forbid the attitudes and racial casteing that we call racism if such memes did not exist among Arabs in CE 600?