Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Why I Love Great Britain" video.

  1.  @southwestsaxon  "and i can tell you this" You can tell us this because of the freedom of speech in the British tradition. If you were living in the nations of your "parents country and heritage" you could not criticize it in that way. "britains history and modern society is about EXTREME RACISM and IMPERIALISM." [sic] It is only in the west in general, and the Anglosphere in particular, where the notion that racism is a bad thing has arose. In other cultures, it was not even recognized as a "thing" at all, good or bad. To look to the society that led the long crusade to end slavery as a bastion of racism and oppression is fundamentally absurd, as diametrically false as any statement uttered under the sun. The British partake of the vices that are the common condition of humanity. When this is coupled with power this WILL leave events that ill endure the light of historical inquiry. But the standards which you are using to judge those events are Western and British standards, which your parent culture would never have arrived at and under those same standards your parent culture fares far worse under historical judgement. When your parent culture obtained, and to this day when they obtain, power over other cultures what they have done, and continue to do, is far worse. What the British and the west were most resented for in the Victorian era in your parent's neck of the woods is for abolishing slavery in the middle east. Like Neo-Confederate revisionists criticizing the Union and lionizing the Confederacy in the American Civil War, you try to sweep the slavery issue under the rug, and deny its centrality and relevance. As for Western racism, again, "racism" is only a concept in the West and in places (like Japan) where western culture has influence. The rest of the world in general, and the Islamic world in particular routinely and openly oppress racial and religious minorities, and think nothing of it. This hypocrisy becomes elevated to a "principle" in modern leftist rhetoric when leftists say "Minorities can't be racist." The US is, in point of fact, the least racist multiracial society in the world, and has been at least since the 1970s. The most prevalent racism in the west is the PC racism promoted by the left, manifest in the US by a reversal of civil rights prohibition against segregation, for example. Your fondness for modern leftist rhetoric is a result of your falling into a trap that the modern left has set and baited for minorities. You are attracted by the sense of superiority the narrative gives you. This is a RACIST appeal. Intellectually, leftists can only give you what they have. You have been welcomed to a great society. Seize and appreciate your good fortune with appropriate gratitude and loyalty. If the left succeeds in bringing the West down to the social level of your parent culture, as they seek to do, you will be very sorry, it will be too late, and there will be no place to escape to. Pray (and work) that this misfortune does not happen to you.
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  2.  @takkiejakkie5458  "Racism/classism/imperialism/dumb religious beliefs etc. etc." Wow, what a diametric historical inversion! Racism, classism, and imperialism are only ever considered problematic in a Western context, that is because the West, AND ONLY THE WEST, (as a legacy of Christendom) is progressing past them. Elsewhere and elsewhen, they are endemic and taken for granted. Protestantism created the modern libertarian west. We (Protestants) implemented religious freedom, political freedom, academic freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of the press FIRST, and thus caused the academic, scientific, technological, and material progress that followed; and most of the rest of the world hasn't caught up with it yet. John 8:32 "You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” When you attack the religious and ethical legacy of Athens and Jerusalem, you undermine the basis of your privileged starting point, and the moral basis for criticizing racism/classism/imperialism. These ills are greatly diminished in the West because of the Protestant legacy. If the wolves succeed in destroying the vestiges of Christianity, the ubiquity of racism/classism/imperialism will once again reassert itself, as it does invariably outside. But it is historically unlikely that they will thus succeed. The Romans tried to wipe us out. The Huns tried to wipe us out. The Islamic Caliphate tried to wipe us out. The Pope tried to wipe us out. The Nazis planned to wipe us out if they won the war. The Soviets and their empire tried to wipe us out. We're still here. It's the anvil, you see, that wears out the hammers; not the other way around.
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