<strong>"But putting our views into practice means obliterating local cultures around the world. The end result might be a more just world, but we shouldn’t fool ourselves into thinking that we aren’t practicing a kind of cultural imperialism by obliterating the local in favor of the universal. The irony is that many human rights campaigners today try to distinguish themselves from the supposedly aggressive missionaries of the past, but to me they seem more alike than different."
</strong>Well, I do think there is a bit of difference between those human rights campaigners today and Bartolome de las Casas who sought a solution to the oppression of Natives in the New World through the introduction of Africans as slaves.
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</strong>There appears to be a false sense of the separateness of the local custom from the wider world and a lack of understanding of the local objections to the local custom that may gain agency from the human rights campaign by changing the relations of power. <strong>
</strong>Best,
Ben
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