• CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Even if. How does a different state of technological developement justifies colonialis, conquering and genocide?

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      It doesn’t, unless you’re a colonizing nation, then any justification will do.

      There are two significant papal bulls around the time that “allowed” European nations to go and conquer the world to spread Christianity and created the Doctrine of Discovery, meaning that non-Christian civilisations were not actually civilized and should be civilized by force for their own good.

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        Yeah, but are the people OP is talking nowadays part of a nation currently colonizing native american peoples and do these people need a justification?

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          The colonisation of the 18th and 19th centuries hasn’t stopped, it just gets dressed up in modern 20th/21st century finery.

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      10 days ago

      Some thing that should be taught in all schools from year 1:

      The difference between a descriptive and prescriptive proposition.