Modernity, and its enemies coming from opposite directions. Premodernism and postmodernism.http://bit.ly/2vg7GCN
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Replying to @RichardDawkins
This is written from a typical Western-imperialist standpoint ("poor countries are poor because they just haven't adopted Modernity yet").
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Replying to @ttrwttr @RichardDawkins
Saying that other countries would be better off under liberal democracy is not imperialism.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @RichardDawkins
It is if you gloss over all the imperialist crimes as if those were just some mistakes from the past irrelevant to today.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @RichardDawkins
Well you did ("there are unfortunately still countries which have not developed mature Modern institutions" = "too bad, their fault").
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Replying to @ttrwttr @RichardDawkins
Love the =. We said nothing at all about whose fault it was.
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Well, sorry about that but if you want an essay on imperialism and it's aftermath, you can always write one? This one abt something else.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @RichardDawkins
Yes, I'm sure only lunatic-fringe social justice warriors complain about such missing context. Sorry about that.
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