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Perhaps it all comes down to a misplaced, illogical application of instinct. Nothing more or less than that?
The instinct of justice. If someone in your tribe is exploiting another member for wealth, you should shame the exploitative member and pursue a form of reparation. This is a pretty universal rule: a child might apologize and make up for it with a friend; a husband might get a gift for an insulted girlfriend.
The instinct of judging by bloodline. Humans all come equipped with the knowledge that child is like parent, whether in humans or husbandry or agriculture.
The problem with (1) is that “the moral standard of freedom to your out-group” is purely an invention of Whites, and “exploiting out-group member for gain” is plausibly universal among non-whites in the same era. So, our “instinct of justice” should make us love Whites for ending extra-group slavery and exploitation, rather than illogically applying an anachronistic standard (which they themselves discovered) to a pre-standard era. We should always rejoice in moral development and probably give the discoverer extra honor, which in this cause would be Europeans, who risked their lives to save many millions of Africans when they placed their ships off the African coast and threatened Africans and Ottomans to force them to stop slavery. But there is something pernicious about those who fail to see this, because they are now committing an evil, by impugning the very people who deserve honor. Re: (2), it makes no sense per the above, but it ironically makes sense for judging the allegedly oppressed class, because of their lack of development. Do the people who judge by bloodline apply the same instinct to the children of criminals? Very likely not, as their instinct has been subverted.
The ghosts are probably the most coherent complain here. Ghosts are bad vibes, and it is hard ignore the vibe of a place which you know was depressing.
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