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Is there a connection between civil liberties and economic ones?

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William replied on Fri, Apr 16 2010 9:34 PM

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 Or those societies could have remained tribal irrelevants, and more advanced societies could have usurped the territory (as was the case with Native Americans).

That is kind of sort of one idea I was hinting at.  If say, the Arabs, Mali, or Ethiopians managed to not stagnate and carve up Lower Africa and not Europe, it would be better as a whole.  There would be no shrill left wing cries about colonialism, and the Africans may not have inherited insane socialistic ideas, etc and the land could have been put to better use today.  War, history, and imperialism doesn't seem as big of a deal to hipsters if the honkeys didn't colonize people.

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 War, history, and imperialism doesn't seem as big of a deal to hipsters if the honkeys didn't colonize people.

Yeah. That's pretty much why I hate most white people.

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