i suppose the enslavement of blacks and near genocide of natives was quite an achievement.
you would if you were racist i suppose.
are europeans and european americans (western culture) the only enslaver of african blacks?
did they in fact enslave more blacks than any other culture?
were natives conquering themselves before european settling?
have natives, in history, joined other techniologically superior cultures to conquer other natives?
a lot of perspective is lost in tunnel vision...but honk the horn and it seems more startling.
europeans were good at conquest....something the whole world strived to be good at in those days.
a navy and central bank helped a lot with that.
sub-saharan africa was particularly GEOGRAPHICLLY vulernable and only a last resort when more local cultures became quite good at defending themselves better.
slaves are much cheaper when acquired contigiously. slavery is an economic phenomonon yes? i beleive it to be and grudges against other cultures are merely excuses to acheive economic advantages by FORCE.
slaves were always mistreated in every culture.
going back to the slav and the word slave is born.
racism was born of an apologetic movement.
in a new world for the first time in history "all men are created equal" directly contradicting slavery.
thus, american slave holders concoted the piss poor excuse "blacks are not men and must be enslaved to be saved" is born.
its a very unique situation in the history of slavery as a whole.
atrocities suck and none of this should be construed as condoning any atrocity committed by any culture whatever.
but the focus on western atrocity seems to be a uniquly "liberated" failosophy in THE WEST that, measured by any other cultural standard its not in any excess.....the acheivments on the other hand are never considered in liberation theology.