[lbo-talk] Western states have created the biggest wars in history (was fartback)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 20 08:15:41 PDT 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>It's much worse than merely false. It is as close to evil as one can
>imagine words to be. It betokens either profound ignorance, a failure
>ever to have read any history of the last 500 years, even elemetary
>school level history, or what, given Wojtek's history of racist slurs at
>African Americans, a real belief that the deaths of non-europeans don't
>count. Because those democracies he praises, as anyone who knows
>anything must realize, have waged an unremitting and incredibly bloody
>war on non-european peoples for 500 years. To answer such garbage is to
>give its producer too much credit as a fellow human.

Did that eruption make you feel better?

I think Charles is right on this and Wojtek is wrong, but what's the point of this sort of invective if it's not some kind of onanism?

Doug



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