"What if's" -- particularly when we're talking hundreds of years -- are kind of silly. Way too many factors. And when we base the question around something as nebulous as race, it gets even sillier.
It is basically like asking, "What if nobody (from this or that 'race') ever interacted?"
What were the chances of that over hundreds of years--violently OR nonviolently?
At the end of the day, I don't know that any of us care to argue that hundreds of years of dehumanizing oppression--regardless of who you have in mind--is better than NOT dehumanizing and oppressing people for hundreds of years.
Anybody wanna give credit to NAZI Germany for rocket technology?
"Don't they deserve our accolades for that amazing innovation? Why not? Why can't we talk about their good side?" -- said nobody, ever.
"What if's" -- particularly when we're talking hundreds of years -- are kind of silly. Way too many factors. And when we base the question around something as nebulous as race, it gets even sillier.
It is basically like asking, "What if nobody (from this or that 'race') ever interacted?"
What were the chances of that over hundreds of years--violently OR nonviolently?
At the end of the day, I don't know that any of us care to argue that hundreds of years of dehumanizing oppression--regardless of who you have in mind--is better than NOT dehumanizing and oppressing people for hundreds of years.
Anybody wanna give credit to NAZI Germany for rocket technology?
"Don't they deserve our accolades for that amazing innovation? Why not? Why can't we talk about their good side?" -- said nobody, ever.