Lester Golden
1 min readMay 4, 2023

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Miss Aztec human sacrifice? The indigenous peoples that allied with the Spanish against the Aztecs didn't.
Think the white Europeans were uniquely cruel? Cruelty, like stupidity, is borderless. Ask the citizens of cities conquered by Timur and the Mongols.
Miss burning widows on their husbands' funeral pyres? Then cancel Britain from India's history.
Miss India's undiluted Hindu caste system and its Dalit slavery? Then cancel Britain from India's history. My Indian classmates said India was so corrupt they'd like the British to return. Admiration for Modi's Hindutva Hindu fascism betrays a serious flaw in judgement.

Prefer a fragmented ununified India? The British unified India by providing the common enemy Gandhi fought nonviolently.
Hate slavery and the slave trade? Then hate the Arabs who practiced it long before and after white Europeans. I've seen it in the slave market in Zanzibar.
Who else owned African slaves? Cherokee.
Why did the Viking warlord Voldemar convert to Christianity? He knew of Christianity prohibited Christians from enslaving other Christians. Hinduism had no such prohibition.
Like the US constitution? Thank the Iroquois confederacy Great Law of Peace it was plagiarised from.

Native Americans gave us the potato, tomato and a constitution. But the Dutch invented the modern world--the fiscal military state. TheEnglish copied it and the Americans copied the copy. Everybody else adapts and copies or stays poor.
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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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