the difference for me is between tracing how thought of the past evolved into that of the present vs taking the present...
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...as a starting point and refiguring the past as a process of building up toward it. this is decidedly the latter imo
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But the former literally does not exist, and the fact that someone is pretending it does is the bulk of the delusion
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I mean the crusades weren't a "clash of cultures." It was Christianity. Literally Christianity.
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The actual societies these people fetishize would consider them a reprehensible plague.
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And they can't get that because the only way for them to discover the past *is* by reaching through their US "racial realism"
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The way that people in the distant past thought is *gone*. There aren't inheritors who can recover it. We can't be those people
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And I guess as evidence I'd say that the people who say they can are, if anything, even more tainted by contemporary politics.
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I mean one can construct arguments on population genetics and breeding patterns without resorting to 20th century...
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...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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