Because when you are speaking into a great vacuum of ignorance, people with malign intent can run an awfully long way awfully fast. They can tell their listeners things that they will simply believe and tell them what they should not question. And as you speak into a vacuum of knowledge, you can—if you are so ideologically inclined—completely rewrite the history of the West, divorcing it from any proper understanding and certainly from any wider context. All in the hope of persuading the peoples of the West not that they were better than anyone else or that they were the same as anyone else,
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