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Martin Greenwald, M.D.'s avatar

For as long as I can remember, I was interested in history. I must have assumed that most others were either as interested as I was, or at least had some investment in not being totally ignorant of it. Only when I got older did I realize that many don't see history as (at least partly) a set of objective facts, and that actual interest in, and knowledge of, history is quite rare. And often those who really need to know it are the most woefully ignorant, and are blind to just how much is at stake right now.

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Richard Fulmer's avatar

Wikipedia’s “List of Empires” includes nearly 300 empires that existed in every historical period and on every inhabited continent. They were created by people of every color, ethnicity, religion, and culture. We are all descended from both oppressors and oppressed.

It was the West that finally condemned conquest after millennia of moral evolution. The only currently active imperialist entities are Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, and Islam.

Progressives condemn the West based on a moral system that evolved in the West and that Progressives claim to reject. At the same time, they celebrate imperialism practiced by any anti-western entity.

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