by Crunchy Pete » Sun Mar 04, 2012 9:52 pm
That was a great summary, thanks Kaharz. I'm going to read the article itself, but before doing that, it's really good to know that there's some more enlightened viewpoints than the ones presented in the other source.
Kaharz wrote:Not that it actually matters to the original debate.
It's quite a pervasive idea, though, isn't it? That if only the Europeans had got to the Americas first, that suddenly that's nigh justification for the decades of exploitation to follow. White guilt needn't apply! What a relief.
I think it's an incredibly bull-headed simplification, and it saddens me that there are so many ready to jump at the opportunity to gloss over things that really need to be challenged if humanity and society are ever going to progress.
on that note, heres a pic of a kitten in a tunnel
That was a great summary, thanks Kaharz. I'm going to read the article itself, but before doing that, it's really good to know that there's some more enlightened viewpoints than the ones presented in the other source.
[quote="Kaharz"]Not that it actually matters to the original debate.[/quote]
It's quite a pervasive idea, though, isn't it? That if only the Europeans had got to the Americas first, that suddenly that's nigh justification for the decades of exploitation to follow. White guilt needn't apply! What a relief.
I think it's an incredibly bull-headed simplification, and it saddens me that there are so many ready to jump at the opportunity to gloss over things that really need to be challenged if humanity and society are ever going to progress.
on that note, heres a pic of a kitten in a tunnel
[img]http://i.imgur.com/YpJyG.jpg[/img]