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> Again, despite many PC narratives, slavery was hardly the exclusive province of European colonial powers working against oppressed others around the world.

Which PC narrative suggests otherwise? I'm not familiar which one pretends and relies on the exclusion of various slave trades, can you elaborate?

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Let's be serious. Have you never once spoken to a crowd of people that self identifies as woke or some combination of qualities that amount to the same essential definition? I have, with many of them and yes, among quite a number of people, the dominant narrative is of constantly making reference to "Eurocentric hegemonic" historical cultural destruction/oppression with disdain for any mention of the very well established historical facts of many other cultures doing exactly the same things. None of this is to minimize the long European history of colonial oppression, but it's certainly not trait that's particular to that continent or its different cultures.

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