mrglwrf comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 18 November 2012 08:37:56PM 4 points [-]

The crusades are often portrayed as violent Christians invading Muslim lands, which forgets that the Muslims violently took those lands from Christians in the first place.

On the other hand, no one complains that the battle of Normandy consisted of violent democracies attacking the lands of the Third Reich.

Comment author: mrglwrf 19 November 2012 05:51:17PM 1 point [-]

There probably would be people complaining if D-Day had occurred four centuries after the fall of France.