Society doesn't shame and condemn other cultures for their brutality. The bloodiest battles in the ancient and even the pre-industrial world happened in places like the Middle East and Asia. Because most of human history occurred BEFORE the Enlightenment, nearly all civilizations performed acts we find brutal today. Egyptians, Nubians, Hyksos, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Akkadians, Tamils, Han Chinese, Fatimids, Umayyads, Abbasids, Scythians, Huns, Mongols, Goths, Macedonians, Lydians, The list goes on and on.
Did you know the Ottomans took European land and killed innocent Europeans in the centuries AFTER the Discovery of the New World? Where are the reparations from Turkey?
Did you know that roughly 90% of the natives in the Americas were wiped out by disease? They didn't have farm animals like our ancestors did, so they were vulnerable to poxes like chicken and small pox. This was long before the discovery of the germ theory of disease or even micro-organisms.
Should we still hold Europeans to a higher standard of moral standing than other cultures? We certainly do now. You can't do that unless you believe that Europeans are more capable of agency than other groups, and while the right gets tagged as being 'white supremacists' you can see based on factual evidence that it is in fact the LEFT that inherently believes this, otherwise they wouldn't take this attitude.
Society doesn't shame and condemn other cultures for their brutality. The bloodiest battles in the ancient and even the pre-industrial world happened in places like the Middle East and Asia. Because most of human history occurred BEFORE the Enlightenment, nearly all civilizations performed acts we find brutal today. Egyptians, Nubians, Hyksos, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Akkadians, Tamils, Han Chinese, Fatimids, Umayyads, Abbasids, Scythians, Huns, Mongols, Goths, Macedonians, Lydians, The list goes on and on.
Did you know the Ottomans took European land and killed innocent Europeans in the centuries AFTER the Discovery of the New World? Where are the reparations from Turkey?
Did you know that roughly 90% of the natives in the Americas were wiped out by disease? They didn't have farm animals like our ancestors did, so they were vulnerable to poxes like chicken and small pox. This was long before the discovery of the germ theory of disease or even micro-organisms.
Should we still hold Europeans to a higher standard of moral standing than other cultures? We certainly do now. You can't do that unless you believe that Europeans are more capable of agency than other groups, and while the right gets tagged as being 'white supremacists' you can see based on factual evidence that it is in fact the LEFT that inherently believes this, otherwise they wouldn't take this attitude.