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It's pancakes and waffles.
"Genocide A is bad."
"So you're saying you support Genocide B?!?!?"
I believe the scientific consensus among historical anthropologists is, and I quote in an Australian accent for some reason:
"we're a right bunch of dickheads we sure are now, ain't we"
Actually, it's the exact opposite.
Humans are a communal species who, if not for the arbitrary social institutions which sprang up within the last 5000 years of humanity's 120000 years on this planet that incentivize us to go against our nature, have an unending capacity for empathy and solidarity. If we didn't, we never would have formed communities to begin with.
Read Graeber, famed historical anthropologist who wrote two entire books on this very subject.
If we didn't, we never would have formed communities to begin with.
I find that hard to believe. The earliest communities likely didn't emerge because a bunch of random strangers got together and said "I feel your pain, let's share each other's burdens."
More likely, parents become grandparents and then great-grandparents, and then with each successive generation the number of cousins grows. These likely had a natural tendency to cohere into clans and tribes.
Maybe then some diplomatic relations with other clans and tribes helped communities grow, but I find it highly improbable that the earliest ones emerged from anything other than organically as families expanded.
Even primitive folks have weapons and combat injuries appear in ancient archeological records too.
They also have plenty of archeological evidence of taking care of the sick or elderly even when doing so would be a resource drain, which means they cared enough about the sanctity of life to help someone who was I need even if it was not mutually beneficial to do so.
I never said conflict doesn't happen.
Isn't that exactly the point of the person on the top right? They're defending against the "Communism bad" stance, by trying to communicate that it isn't exactly a fair stance when talking about atrocities as it's always powerful, authoritarian nutcases doing them. It's not like it's part of the communist agenda to be fucking horrible.
No, because it's often said to deflect any criticism of second-world governments. Like "Nuh uh, Stalin wasn't bad! Just look at the Trail of Tears!"
USA's CIA had toppled a lot of democratically elected governments and replaced them with brutal authoritarian regimes that lasted decades. Basically they let the natives of respective countries do the killings.
Yes that is bad, and it does not excuse anyone else’s atrocities.
