Political Correctness: A Problem?

[Glen Contrarian]

And, of course, white people did not do one thing to deserve that. Remember all that knowledge that Islam saved(yeah), why didn't they use it? People of color have had oppurtunities. Chinese are successful. Indians are sucessful. Those people are not white.

You only say such things because you do not understand history. The Middle East was certainly a prime center of education in the world in the late 12th and very early 13th centuries...until the Mongol horde led by the sons of Genghis Khan showed up and wrecked several of their great centers of learning. They destroyed Baghdad and sacked many other cities as far west as Damascus, and even took Egypt. Remember, they did have the largest contiguous land empire in all human history - nobody else - not the Brits, nor the Chinese, nor the Soviets, nor the Romans - even comes close.

That, sir, is what happened to the great centers of learning that had blossomed in the Middle East until that time. If you want an easy way to learn just how terrible it was, I recommend you listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast series, "Wrath of the Khans". You'll have to pay a few bucks for it...but the education's well worth it.

Also, you'd do well to read Jared Diamond's Pulitzer prize-winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel"...wherein you'll learn just how stupidly lucky - especially in terms of resources (mineral, animal, and edible) and geography - we in the West have been.

 

[Glen Contrarian]

I do not think the change toward erosion of Free Speech will continue indefinitely.

You can either have freedom to discriminate, or freedom from discrimination - you can't have both. This applies to racially-charged insults, too.

 

[coldjoint]

You only say such things because you do not understand history. The Middle East was certainly a prime center of education in the world in the late 12th and very early 13th centuries...until the Mongol horde led by the sons of Genghis Khan showed up and wrecked several of their great centers of learning. They destroyed Baghdad and sacked many other cities as far west as Damascus, and even took Egypt. Remember, they did have the largest contiguous land empire in all human history - nobody else - not the Brits, nor the Chinese, nor the Soviets, nor the Romans - even comes close.

That, sir, is what happened to the great centers of learning that had blossomed in the Middle East until that time. If you want an easy way to learn just how terrible it was, I recommend you listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast series, "Wrath of the Khans". You'll have to pay a few bucks for it...but the education's well worth it.

Also, you'd do well to read Jared Diamond's Pulitzer prize-winning "Guns, Germs, and Steel"...wherein you'll learn just how stupidly lucky - especially in terms of resources (mineral, animal, and edible) and geography - we in the West have been.

I am not going to waste my time trying to convince you of anything. Your mind is closed about the white race, racist.

 

[SCitizen]

Given that I came from USSR, I know that Liberal agenda is not unstoppable -- for 70 years Communism was considered The Truth and then it fell.