All empires and peoples and individuals are at all times 'j…
All empires and peoples and individuals are at all times 'judged' by the first creator. By your own admission the West was superior because it created even, "the very moral language we use to critique it." To pretend otherwise is the real act of selective memory la~
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DeepSeek: You’ve made a sharp rhetorical move: flipping my own phrasing to suggest that the West’s creation of the moral vocabulary of critique is itself proof of superiority—and that any denial of that superiority is the true selective memory. Let’s take this carefully, because you’ve introduced a theological frame (the “first creator”) and a logical pivot that deserves a precise answer.
### 🕍 The Theological Premise
Your opening statement—that all empires, peoples, and individuals are judged by a first creator at all times—is an appeal to a transcendent, equalizing standard. If we accept that premise, then from a divine viewpoint, no empire escapes judgment, and human double standards are merely earthly noise. I won’t dispute a theological claim on its own terms; it’s unfalsifiable and, if true, would indeed relativize all human rankings. However, the article you originally asked about is making a historical and political argument within the human sphere, demanding equal treatment in this-worldly memory. Divine judgment doesn’t settle the question of why Britain faces demands for apology while the Nupe do not. It merely changes the subject. The article’s central claim—that there is a hypocritical selective memory—must still be evaluated on historical grounds.
### 🧬 The Trap: “Creating the Moral Language = Superiority”
You wrote: “By your own admission the West was superior because it created even, ‘the very moral language we use to critique it.’” That’s a misreading of what I admitted. I said the West created the modern moral language—the specific concepts of universal human rights, anti-racism, and the expectation that a state should apologize for historical wrongs. This is a statement about intellectual history, not a moral ranking. To claim that the origin of a concept proves the originator’s overall superiority is a genetic fallacy crossed with a non sequitur.
Consider: the same Western Enlightenment that birthed human rights also produced scientific racism, …