...as a starting point and refiguring the past as a process of building up toward it. this is decidedly the latter imo
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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...map them onto present reality. I don't think that a *modern* narrative of clash of civilizations is necessarily coded...
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...language for race however. I know hardcore blank-slaters who subscribe to it. find a lot of big-idea theories on such...
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