Because they weren't looking at it from the framework of racial theory designed to justify later european colonial expansion
...conceptions of race. can also construct narrative of competing, irreconcilable cultures without touching either of those
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I don't think these are prima facie any better or worse than marxist analyses of manorialism or whatever
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Sure, but nobody actually thought that way.
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no one thought in terms of the need for christendom to put aside infighting to wage war against infidels?
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Not my point. That is literally what they thought, but the view that it's abstractable is a modern invention
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Like literally *none* of these ideas would exist if not for specific outcomes of colonialism, slavery and american war
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That's what grinds my gears about these people—we *know* what they really think and why they really think it
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This fetishization of a medieval abstract clash of cultures which is somehow transplantable into the modern era is
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an excuse which exists only because it became unpopular to be like "yeah I'm super racist."
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ohh ok I understand what you mean know. I agree that there isn't a way to recapture old worldviews with good fidelity and...
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