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Originally Posted by rubecube
Well it seems to me that part of what we're doing right is dismantling patriarchy and colonialism, so continuing to root it out in even it's most benign forms is probably more constructive than sitting here and patting ourselves on the backs.
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But why did it happen in the West? Why did the women's rights movement, the LBGT movement, anti-racism movements, environmentalist, etc., start in Western Europe and the Anglo world, and not in China, India, Egypt, or Brazil?
As much as the Western tradition includes some pretty monstrous systems, it also birthed the reforms of those systems. The culture that gave the world colonialism also gave it the Enlightenment, democracy, the scientific revolution, and the rights revolution. As for patriarchy, it's more or less the universal human norm in every settled society in history, so hanging that on the West is just obtuse.
The progressive anti-Western left, virtually all of their ideals and principles, are themselves the product of Western culture. But that doesn't stop them from cutting off their own nose to spite their face.