"Western Civilization" is a complicated and problematic construct in many ways...but if there are any features of it that even conservatives might agree are central to it--a concern for truth and valuing the golden rule are pretty non-negotiable tenets of it. bsky.app/profile/seth...

I mean, say what you will about Marxism and socialism, but one would have to do a special kind of fascistic mental gymnastics to claim that either of these political traditions exists entirely outside of "Western Civilization." I mean, Hitler made that claim... bsky.app/profile/shar...

As far as I’m concerned it’s an almost instant-Nazi giveaway