I agree with others that this thread demonstrates the failure case of cultural relativism. True: They didn't think what they were doing was wrong, and intent is part of how we evaluate moral culpability. False: We shouldn't use our contemporary standards to judge these practices. https://twitter.com/lizzie_wade/status/1010178681334050822 …
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* aztec sacrifice was absolutely political wtf * that doesn't mean it wasn't pregnant with great mystic power * these two facts have nothing to do with gay "settler-colonialist" discourse
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this view in particular is bizarre and confused. these two aspects don't form a dichotomy! https://twitter.com/lizzie_wade/status/1010178689697570817 …
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religion has served the interests of power forever. in a way maybe just survivor bias, those systems that could enable power to function naturally spread by the successful application of power
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but that doesn't make it "cynical" as fedora-atheists like to think about "organized religion" or postcolonialists like to think about anything involving euros
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desire to expand by force one's own world-system necessarily motivated by deep inward conviction in its rightness!
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chattering class rejects this in our culture because they lack capacity for belief (maybe rightly so!), seek out "purer" expressions in others
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they can never truly "feel" foreign culture so they never discover the problem is in their hearts, not something other cultures "have" that we "lack"
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