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The argument that the white man is solely responsible for the mess that we currently find sub-saharan Africa in is basically accepted far and wide. The white man , we are told,is the only reason Africa is not modernized. If only the white man had never rudely interfered with Africa, or stepped foot on it, all would be well.

Therefore the idea seems to be, in many liberal mindsets, that no one should have ever taken an interest in SS africa, even dating back to ----what?--- the 1400s or something.

While I obviously find the story of it all very tragic, I also don't really understand what people think was an alternative. Were EUropeans wrong to build boats? Were they wrong to sail and explore? Should Europeans have simply stayed home and never developed any technology? I don't get it. What exactly do people think would have happened in the 1600s or some century like that -- aside from war?

Do people believe that the EUropeans could have built the boats, landed in Africa, and everyone start singing kumbayah immediately, holding hands? Doesn't that sound a bit preposterous or am i just evil? I just don't understand what people find so shocking about this period of history. It basically reads as gruesomely as any other period; the only difference is that now its two different races against each other, and the effects are still highly visible in our own age. But that doesn't make it any more shocking. The history of our world is gruesome. Why would the history of Africa, especially Europeans discovering Africa, be any different?

Do liberals realize, for example, that the entire model of democratic government has been pulled from Greece and rome, two pretty ferocious cultures?

I feel like liberals have a very satisfying idea of the future, but they have unfortunately tried to also apply their utopian future ideals to a gruesome past, and it makes them look like morons. You can't change the past -- and there's not really any reason to express such outrage over it, either. This image of the African tribes as some totally peaceful entity that the evil white man just swept down upon and corrupted is ridiculous. It'd be like if aliens attacked us tomorrow, and hundreds of years from now, we tried to act like the human race had been entirely peaceful and pacifist-- until the aliens arrived. What a load of BS.

In terms of North Africans, Muslims tried to invade spots in Italy and Spain again and again. Sometimes they won, but they also lost. The Europeans developed a successful defense to hold them out. Are we to say that They are assholes for playing good defense? Ridiculous. No one says anything about how Muslims continously tried to invade Europe centuries ago, because they lost. Somehow EUropeans are even painted as evil for this! "How dare you defend your own country in the 1300s against Muslims..." Huh? But isn't the sad thing about Africa all because they couldn't figure out a way to defend their own lands? How is that the Europeans problem? Again, were Euros supposed to arrive and just start kickin' it like good amigos? Get real. This is why liberals are painted as childish morons and no one will listen to their ideas for the future -- which is far more important than the past. They look at the past and just whine like brats. Instead of picking out the positive stuff that happened between these two very different cultures interacting in these dark past times, the lib goes bakc and purposely picks out every single thing that went horribly wrong. What an asshole.

Still, I'm open to hearing what people think the alternative could have been. To me, it pretty much seems like everyone is still pissed off that Europeans invented boats that got them to Africa. It's as though everyone just wishes the boats had never been built. Which is beyond stupid.