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2016-07-10 03:42:59 Post No. 8261211
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2016-07-10 03:42:59
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>But to return back to the Moors, where I left off; they are an instance of that cruelty of disposition which was anciently in their nature, and how in a country abandoned
of the true Christian religion, after it has been first planted and professed among them, the return of heathenism or Mahometanism has brought back with it all the barbarisms of a nation void of religion and good nature.
>I saw enough of these dreadful people to think them at this time the worst of all the nations of the world; a nation where no such thing as a generous spirit, or a temper with any compassion mixed with it, is to be found; among whom Nature appeal’s stripped of all the additional glories which it derives from religion, and yet whereon a Christian flourishing church had stood several hundred
years.
This is from Daniel Defoe, a writer whose work is still taught today in English countries around the world. Tell me again why we still listen to these writers who were canonized by our grandpas? It's time we decolonize our curricula and get these racist as FUCK writers out of the classroom.
Is /lit/ on board?