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by gebhk » 27 Feb 2022, 10:33
Yep, agree.
Sadly just as cooperation and a desire for peace has been with humanity (and indeed all social organisams) since the dawn of time, so has conflict, subjugation, slavery and genocide. To suggest that this is the prerogative of Europeans/Whites is frankly ludicrous and for anyone with pretentions of being a historian, beyond ludicrous. It is just that for arelatively short period of time, the Europeans were the 'best' at it - merely because they had industrialised first. Undoubtedly, the application of industrial techniques and technology to the business of subjugation and genocide has led to truly horrific results and (particularly in conjunction with the growth of the human population) on a hitherto unmatched absolute scale. It can hardly be a coincidence that by and large the most advanced civilisation, technology and organisation was associated throughout history with the greatest bloodshed which, I would suggest, is why well over half the 10 bloodiest genocidal wars in history, in absolute terms, occured in the Far East. On a per capita basis, the Lushan rebellion almost certainly dwarfs WW2, even if we ignore, as many Western histrians do, that around a third of the civilian casualties of WW2 were from China. However, as with all such advances, other parts of the world learn fast and probably the deadliest genocidal conflict since WW2 has been in Africa.
I can't help feeling that the sort of view of hiostory presented here by Arte is, at its heart, profoundly racist because it simply ignores (deliberately or through shear ignorance) the history of the non-white and vast majority of the world's population.
