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Originally posted by Spanky
Yes in a moraless vacuum. In a moraless vacuum being bigoted or racist wouldn't be a bad thing either. But in a world of right and wrong I stand by my comment. So is it racist to assume that black people in Africa should get human rights? Or is that me imposing my "western values" on Africans. Is it racist or bigoted of me to say that Nazism was bad for Germany. Democracy is not just a system. It is a belief that it is a human right to have a say in how your own government is run. Just like it is a human right to not be tortured. To say that Arabs don't want or need democracy is like saying African Americans don't want or need an education.
Do you belive in Human rights. Then Arabs deserve live in Democratic governments. If you don't, then the Arabs don't want or need democracy and slavery is OK. In which camp are you?
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It this sort of smug self-superiority that causes many in the Arab world to turn away from Western democracy. They're not rejecting democracy so much as they're rejecting us.
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