When leftists attack the history of the United States they point to the expansion of the European settlers in the new world and decry the dislocation that fell upon the Native Americans and they point to the black Africans that were swept up in the slave trade and suffered years of bondage.\u00a0 And they even point to the role of women as domestic chattel without the right to vote or own property of their own and had to endure the hard work and limited opportunities as wives and mothers.\u00a0 Finally, they\u2019ll indict our ancestors because they criminalized and stigmatized homosexuals.\u00a0 The Left will hammer away and condemn the American project as racist, genocidal, misogynistic, homophobic and a host of other slurs.<\/p>\n
But I always remember that the Left are relativists.\u00a0 They don\u2019t believe in absolutes.\u00a0 So, I am always ready to ask, \u201cWe are all these terrible things relative to what?\u00a0 Compared to what?\u00a0 Name a society that existed before Enlightenment Europe that was less racist, less misogynistic, less homophobic and less unjust.\u00a0 And any that came after, show how they don\u2019t derive their policies from the Enlightenment Europeans.\u201d<\/p>\n
They can\u2019t do it.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be met with either silence or absurd lies that don\u2019t stand up to historical examination.\u00a0 All of the policies that the Left embraces exist because the English or the Americans have allowed them to exist.\u00a0 The English were the first to abolish slavery.\u00a0 They eliminated it from their vast empire.\u00a0 We followed their lead.\u00a0 Americans gave the vote to emancipated black slaves.\u00a0 The Americans gave women the vote and the whole world followed suit.\u00a0 Americans have decriminalized and practically sanctified every form of deviant sexual behavior short of bestiality and pedophilia and that was well in advance of some of the third world societies that the Left is always defending like the Arab countries.\u00a0 In fact, many of these Muslim nations still have the death penalty by cruel methods to punish homosexuals.<\/p>\n
So, when the Left is busy denouncing historical figures and Europeans in general for the sins of not being current with the latest fashion in queer political grievances I can\u2019t help but laugh at the fact that at any other time and place they would be squatting around a mud hut filled with vermin and disease, eating food that was rotting where it sat while their leaders plotted the next raid against their neighboring tribe with the intent of capturing, torturing and killing all of the men and raping and enslaving the women as a grand adventure to enhance their status as the greatest tribe in their crap-hole corner of the jungle or desert or prairie that they inhabited.<\/p>\n
You can search across Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas and you will find that the history of mankind is a history of war, slavery and domination of the weaker by the stronger.\u00a0 To dare to indict the actions and the motives of the Europeans that built the current world civilization because they didn\u2019t anticipate a future where their pampered descendants and those of their former enemies would condemn their relatively enlightened behavior is outrageously illogical and laughably stupid.<\/p>\n
So, when the Left comes after Robert E. Lee and even Thomas Jefferson, I say who would you put forth from the same time period in say Sudan or the Congo or any other non-European place that was more enlightened than they were with respect to slavery?\u00a0 Who was around at the time of Columbus who wouldn\u2019t have been eager to conquer new lands for his king?\u00a0 Surely not the Aztecs.\u00a0 They would have slaughtered every stranger they could lay their hands on and cut their hearts out of their bodies on their bloody altars.\u00a0 How would the transgender HR representative at Google like to demand that its pronouns be honored by the Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran.\u00a0 I suspect he would find himself being hurled off a ten-story building for his trouble.<\/p>\n
So, when a Leftist tells you how evil America is, ask him, \u201cCompared to What?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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