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Originally Posted by Odin88
What a fucking fool. White men are responsible for the world as it is today. If you don't like it please feel free to join your culturally and intellectually superior brothers in their huts built out of horse shit.
It really pisses me off when people attack white men, white men (like the rest of the world at the time) may have been brutal, but you know what, unlike shitholes like Africa white culture actually allowed them to develop beyond this to something we like to call 'civilised'. Complain all you want about slavery, the truth is your brotha's still practice it TODAY, they still abduct and force 10 year olds to fight in brutal wars and kill their own relatives, they still force women to sexually serve them (i.e. they RAPE them).
Unlike in Western CIVILISATION, these things are the norm in many African countries. So rather than trying to serve up bullshit about how the white man is the devil because of what has been done in the past (much of which is hyped bullshit), why don't you attack yo brotha's for having slaves today, for forcing 10 year olds to fight in brutal wars, for keeping sexual slaves and more? Oh shit, my bad, that's the White man's fault too.
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All people have had at one time or another 'civilizations'. All people have innovated, invented, built, and engineered. The mud huts you speak of are of civilizations that have either regressed, remained isolated from the world, or have been repressed. Ruins of buildings made of brick and other structures are found in Africa just as they are the world over from people of all groups.
I agree that white men have in the past 300-400 years have made the most progress than any group before. Just to put things in perspective the world that men knew 400 years ago didn't have electricity, indoor plumbing, computers, phones, fridges, assembly lines, cars, planes, etc. These are all modern amenities, most only within the past 50-100 years. Your parents will probably be able to recall the time when they didn't have tv.
Contact with outside world and a knack for borrowing ideas/discoveries and refining those ideas (ex. gun powder discovered and used by Chinese in China for firecrackers was utilized for a new weapon, the gun - and with the gun overthrowing people who fought using swords, arrows, and spears became easy) and the genesis of a culture that promotes the development of new ideas is, I'd believe, the most significant imprint of the white man and has allowed him to dominate the world. Being able to throw off religious dogma/lunacy and replace it with philosophical thought and eventually science, and travelling abroad where white men could start anew (North America) are unique and very important features in the shaping of the world we see today.
People pointing the finger and saying white men are the Devil or responsible for the most evil are wrong. All groups have taken part in atrocities against others and their own and continue to do so. No group has a monopoly on 'evil'. All men are capable of the same goods and evils.