Comment on Neo-reactionaries, why are you neo-reactionary?

Sat, 22 Nov 2014 21:35:00 GMT

That's actually precisely Enlightenment Leftie's qualm.

NRx Leftie says it's different this time, because the British Empire were fairly savage themselves, because they actually didn't value the people who they considered savages as human beings. NRx Leftie said that the British Empire actually worked out fairly well, by some standards. and the bad bits were because the Brits themselves had a savage culture.

Enlightenment Leftie calls bullshit why should it be different this time, and that's pretty much why I don't really buy NRx.

(My inner Conservative-Churchill thinks the British empire was actually a net good and my inner NRx-Right adds that the independence movements triggered by liberalism are what really fucked us over.)

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