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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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.
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This is a bit simplistic, but it's at least partially due to necessity and affluence, right?
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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.
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Who is making that argument?
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The progressive anti-Western left, and 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.
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I'm not sure why there's an issue with this unless you can demonstrate why or how discarding a particular Western tradition will lead to a negative outcome.