RE: Does humanity deserve Corona?
March 28, 2020 at 4:39 am
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2020 at 4:42 am by Belacqua.)
(March 28, 2020 at 4:14 am)Mr Greene Wrote: You should have tried searching for his views on a global Caliphate, that has been the most jarring change in his outlook since I returned to the forum.
His views regarding the Arabs usually surface when he's ranting about the Saudis.
I'll wait and see what he says. So far I've only seen him say that because Muslim countries have been subjugated by more powerful imperial and colonial powers for a long time, people in the subjugated countries have developed an inferiority complex. It makes sense to me that when my country and others treat whole regions of the world as pawns with resources to be stolen, it would have long-lasting psychological effects. I had never thought of it that way before, so I learned something.
If he wants a powerful Muslim country in order to counter the evil done by my own country, that would be understandable. Personally I don't see that as leading to peace, but it's not for an American to say that they should disarm before we do.
People like us -- from those powerful countries -- should acknowledge that imperial influences have long term negative effects. If we try to downplay the obvious historical causes of poverty and lack of development in the subjugated countries and blame it on their religion, we are giving our own countries a pass that we don't deserve.
But I'm not here to pass judgment on individual posters -- I prefer to talk about history and philosophy, and people who disagree with me can help me to formulate my own ideas more fully.