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by animal_spirits 495 days ago
Do you have sources to backup your claim that Karp is only envisioning white people as part of the west? Is he a known white supremicist? I could not find such a claim.
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I found he wrote this on his letter to shareholders…

> “As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.’

“He continued: ‘Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.’”

Yikes..

https://bsky.app/profile/leahmcelrath.bsky.social/post/3lheu...

What is the yikes? Martial superiority isn't exactly a groundbreaking metric by which to measure societies.

It's also an essential one--sovereignty depends on it. That will be true as long as international relations are anarchic.

Might makes right is descriptive of the history of civilization, however I do not accept it is the - only- descriptor.