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>It is also arguably the greatest achievement of the human species.

This belief, and a horrid past (and present) of exploiting, plundering, murdering, etc all over the world, from the Crusades and colonial times to the Holocaust and onwards, is what makes it one of the most bloody and backwards "achievements of the human species".

Some exhibits from the "greatest achievement of the human species":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_zoo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Congo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961

parent coldtea 10 years ago

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