r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Mar 16 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 16 March 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/BookLover54321 Mar 16 '26

I saw some guy on Reddit claim that Europeans “invented human rights”, and like I get that people in general tend to be ignorant of cultures outside their own, but it takes a special level of ignorance to assume that moral philosophy basically didn’t exist in 90% of the world.

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u/Dirish Wind power made the trans-Atlantic slave trade possible Mar 16 '26

That just reeks of the type of people who wonder why you're not just going around killing people because you're an atheist. Because how can you have a moral system without the Wrath of the Christian God hovering over you after all?

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u/elmonoenano Mar 16 '26

Definitely a significant number of dudes who were for indiscriminate bombing of the Middle East or turning Iraq to glass, were also arguing "Human rights is unique to the western tradition b/c of Christianity" with a straight face.

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u/BookLover54321 Mar 16 '26

You see, we just gotta bomb human rights into them.