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Dimont’s passage is a beautiful bit of prose, but it isn’t doing what you’re trying to make it do. He’s not “proving” a historical destiny, he’s writing, in the 1960s, a speculative perhaps about Spinoza’s future influence. The sentence you’re leaning on literally hangs on “perhaps” twice...

Don’t change the rule 😂 NHC

Serious study of philosophy and history doesn’t give “inevitable conclusions” about the destiny of mankind; it gives arguments, probabilities, and competing narratives. If you think communism and Judaism are humanity’s destiny, that’s a thesis you have to actually argue for, not just declare as...

That’s legit Scripture, just usually not the bit that comes up in Sunday school. NHC

You’re drawing a cleaner line there than real conversations actually have. Saying “I don’t understand” is one valid move, but saying “when you write X, it reads as Y” is also a perfectly legitimate way of engaging the text – it’s not me declaring a divine translation, it’s me telling Gospel how...

I agree that writers own their words and readers own their interpretations, but “I didn’t mean that” isn’t a magic eraser. If multiple people independently read the same implication out of what someone actually wrote, that’s not automatically bad faith, it’s feedback on how the point was framed...

You keep asking me to “quote you” as if the problem is a sentence I made up instead of the framing you actually used. You wrote that it’s “a bunch of Arabs doing what they learned from the ‘civilized world’” and that “what’s happening here is the same colonial logic, in Arab uniforms,” then in...

You keep trying to turn this into “people thought I was blaming whitey,” but nobody needed that shortcut, they just read you saying “same colonial logic in Arab uniforms” and then watching you center a Europe-origin story about “where the ideology came from.” Saying now that whiteness is a...

You’ve got it backwards. Nobody asked you to defend something I “manufactured” I’ve been quoting your own lines back at you and pointing out how they actually read: “a bunch of Arabs,” “same colonial logic in Arab uniforms,” followed by a whole riff on where that ideology came from. That is the...

You’re acting like people owe you a mind-reading session instead of taking your own words at face value. You wrote “just a bunch of Arabs…” and “same colonial logic in Arab uniforms” under your name, then built on that with a whole thread about where the ideology came from. Readers are allowed...

I don’t need to ask you about thoughts you would have added in a different universe, I’m responding to the words you actually put on the page. You framed it as “the same colonial logic in Arab uniforms” and then built your follow-ups around “where that ideology came from.” If the Sudan-specific...

I never claimed you literally wrote “Sudan has no internal history.” I’m saying that when you call it “the same colonial logic in Arab uniforms” and focus on “where the ideology came from” without naming any Sudan-specific dynamics, you effectively make the Europe-origin story do most of the...

Nobody here is denying this is ethnic cleansing or that racialized anti-Black hatred is central. “Sunni killing Sunni because they’re Black” is exactly the kind of thing that shows how deep the racial hierarchy runs in Sudan and the Sahel. You don’t need to convince me that skin tone and...

But if the story stops at ‘this is just the latest stage of a Europe-invented logic,’ it still relies on a big abstraction that downplays Sudan’s own history and the concrete choices of Sudanese actors in favor of a neat intellectual timeline. NHC

To be a Zog you must be red, but being red doesn’t make you a Zog. That’s the whole necessary vs sufficient distinction. NHC