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You are really going to be disappointed when you read about the ancient Greeks or the Romans...

500 years? China rocks this category at 5000 years of horrible treatment of humanity. ✊🏼

Exactly. Here in the US history and One of things seen in the Middle East now

All the humans suck tho. West sucks. East sucks. South sucks. There is killing and slaving and raping, etc from t=0. Tech made it amplified.

The slave owner mentality is alive, and making a comeback in the US.

Of course they are, they need the optics to look good. Why let the facts get in the way of good propaganda?

Yes and the point is that Genghis Khan is most certainly not of "The West."

The Soviet Union Literally colonized Eastern Europe and Half the Middle East. The Maoist Chinese have been trying to colonize the whorl of Asia for 60 years now and before them The Japanese. The Communists in South America have been trying to Colonize each other to death since the 20s. Wake up.

I was thought the word civilization was an odd word to describe the societies we have built. There just seems to be a lack of civility, especially in a lot of the leaders we seem to have had. (As a planet and country) How can we be a civilization if we aren't civil? What we have is a ization.

Such a simplistic view of the world. Many of the slaves were offerings/business from the tribe chiefs of the colonized lands, no, it does not absolve anything but it shows that it was not just "people grabbing into boats".

There’s a reason why a handful of Conquistadors were able to conquer the Aztec Empire. They had the assistance of conquered peoples. History is much more complicated than a simple “good/bad” analysis.

"We know civilization when we see it. We is it."

with respect, i can't really agree or even take seriously that kind of statements

Who do you think are "the West"?

And Muslims are colonizers if the East 🤷‍♀️

If “us” can overpower “them”, isn’t that the infallible wisdom of the Almighty Marketplace? <sarcasm>

If you invented the hot shower, the sandwich, underground sewers, movable type, and the queen-sized mattress, I'm giving you the civilization award. But that doesn't let you off the hook for exploiting people who just happen not to have invented the muzzle-loading long-gun.

Time for change.

When I was at school, many many years ago.,my teachers were still proud of the British empire. But when it's over, it created many problems. India,Pakistan,Bangladesh. South Africa,. We consoled ourselves by saying we always left a democracy. Knowing it had a snowball in hells chance of lasting.

Civilization is Latin for “learning your place” In that respect the west is the bringer of civilization. *this may or not be factual, but it’s true.

This is true. Great Wall of China was all about expansion of territory for example.

It's cause we are all white and shiny :) </vomit>

it is - as is the movement of populations - we are a mobile species and often a not particularly nice one

Religion and politics have always been closely connected. Somehow the Jewish population was adapting better to the invading Islamic rulers. Which sometimes backfired, like in the Granada massacre. Also the intermediary role of Jewish slave traders was maybe convenient for both Christians and Muslims

Conquerors and conquered

We must uproot colonialism 💯 These people are common thieves, terrorists, rapists, enslatvors, liars, and some of the worst people who have ever been on the planet! No power for them!

Processeng...

Yanks aren't even the best at this sport.

There’s more…

Who is not a colonizer? Is it just the bad west or maybe its part of the human condition and it has been happening for millenia?

We just resumed the great migration from the east that overran the western roman empire as soon as we had the tech to cross the atlantic. We are the barbarians.