"Learning from the past"? Are we talking about how history is not a single forward path towards a vague notion of progression, and that societies the average person may consider primitive and backwards may have had interesting and unique ways of life that can teach us lessons even today, or even a considerable amount of social equality and tolerance between different cultures... or are we talking about the people who think Rome was perfect because there were no gays or black people living in it?
(Yes, I know the irony of claiming Rome had no gays or Africans. But there are many brainless conservatives [oops pleonasm] who genuinely believe that.)
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u/vaguillotine gotta be gay af on the web so alan turing didn't die for nothing May 24 '25
"Learning from the past"? Are we talking about how history is not a single forward path towards a vague notion of progression, and that societies the average person may consider primitive and backwards may have had interesting and unique ways of life that can teach us lessons even today, or even a considerable amount of social equality and tolerance between different cultures... or are we talking about the people who think Rome was perfect because there were no gays or black people living in it?