You also need to recognize no one is perfect and it is all a continual 'work in progress' - a set of goals which in the West is subject to scrutiny but elsewhere such goals are pure myth. Ppl locked up for raising their voices. Big difference
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Welcome back to Twitter, Caroline. I was starting to feel concerned by your abrupt disappearance.
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Needs a follow up tweet or thread to explain what you mean.
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reminds me of the supposed Gandhi line on Western Civilization
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A core Western value is "talk softly and carry a big stick". The people with the sticks don't talk much. They let their sticks do the talking. The people without sticks talk a lot and generally disagree with the stick people. But at the end of the day the sticks make the rules
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Sorry, but that's nonsense. All human groups have wielded sticks against one another with great abandon
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The problem with Western values is they are nebulous and ill defined. Those who are favourable to the Western world pick out positive values, and those who are anti-West pick out values that have caused horrible consequences.
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Further, some proponents of (positive) Western values claim they arise directly from their religious tradition, and this thereby proves its value. They are blind to the fact The Enlightenment was pushing back against the authority of the church that you criticise at your peril.
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This is my chief criticism of muh liberal order and Enlightenment values. Good ideas, only partly and hypocritically applied. We have to *become* what we were claiming to be. (Bangs fist theatrically)
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Every day I find another reason to despise the silence surrounding drone murder strategy.
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