The first two people I talked to at college thought it was good that Charlie Kirk was killed.
Neither of these people are super political, but they are left wing in college. This should give you a sense of just how mainstream it is rn to think political violence is good.
Within 30 seconds I made them both realize how insane that is, but it’s the fact that both of them, in a row, thought this, that is so troubling.
If I wasn’t there they would’ve carried on believing this. It is so fucked.
Both of these people are my friends, and their identity is not bound up in politics at all.
They just think it is the right thing to say. Essentially, the idea right now is that Bolshevism is the height of empathy. It’s impossible to overstate how mainstream this is.
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Leopold himself would disagree with you--see highlighted quote.
10 million were not killed, but there was a population loss of 1-2.5 million, and the Congo Free State was riddled with atrocities. I'll go these through these horrors below.
Murder and the burning of hundreds of villages by soldiers in the pursuit of rubber. Admitted in diaries, told to missionaries, and collected in oral histories.
Sexual violence was replete, including forced incest. The last source is about how these crimes were rarely if ever punished, and victims had little avenue to seek justice.
@Evolving_Moloch Sacrificial captives had their hands bound behind their backs, and were taken to the top of the temple—in both Postclassical Maya and the movie.
It is often said that the West is rich due to slavery and colonialism.
But by 1500, long before the Atlantic slave trade and long before England or France have a single colony, Western Europe was far richer than the rest of the world.
During the Middle Ages the Islamic world was ahead of the Western world intellectually, and was the leader in science and philosophy globally.
By the year 1300 that began to flip, and by the year 1420 the gap became gigantic. The Renaissance was a big deal.
This followed from many things, among them the growth of the University in Europe. The first universities were established in Europe just before the year 1100 AD and during the 12th century, but the inflection point is at the year 1200 AD.
A History Of Black Excellence, What You May Not Know.
Beginning with Diébédo Francis Kéré, the 2022 Pritzker Prize winner—the Nobel Prize of architecture. Kéré is the first person from Africa and the first black person to win it.
Kéré constructs hospitals and schools all over Africa, but mainly for his home village of Gando, in Burkina Faso. He integrates innovations in European design with traditional African architecture motifs, to fit the needs of the people.
David Blackwell’s interest in math began in a high school geometry class, and from thereon he spent the rest of his life pursuing solutions to mathematical problems.
@MaraviWarrior@regularJay22 Even African nations which contained a spectrum of slaves, such as Ghana, also practiced chattel slavery. Chattel slaves in Ghana were known as “Akyere” and “Donko”.
@Sturgeons_Law This is untrue. First, manumission wasn't a road to power, but castration was. In the Islamic world black slaves, unlike white slaves, could almost never achieve any political power, unless they remained slaves and were castrated.
@Sturgeons_Law Since you’ve already demonstrated your desire to whitewash the history of slavery in the Arab world, let's go through it some more. Starting with the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in human history. Between 500K-2.5 million died.