Jason Kuznicki notes that geneticists find that almost everyone of some European descent descends from Charlemagne. But the same math that shows us the Charlemagne link also tells us this:
"If the most wretched peasant of Charlemagne’s empire has any descendants now living, then we are all her children, too. That’s just how this genetic math works."
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They Were All Our Ancestors
Nationalism chooses sides in the most awful family drama of all time. It sides with the evildoers, and never with their victims, and teaches you to do the same.Jason Kuznicki (Liberal Currents)
William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"And there were a lot more wretched-but-fertile peasants in Francia than there were paladins at the short-lived court of the emperor. When you make a family tree, you don’t get to pick only the winners. Reach back impartially, and we’re all from an exactly equal set of ancestors. …
Delving into your ancestry will not reveal that you spring from a natural aristocracy. It will show that we have all been brothers, like it or not."
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William Lindsey
in reply to William Lindsey • • •"We’re all more closely related than we know, and our family has been murdering its own.
I’d think a realization like that should send every nationalist running for the shelter of cosmopolitan liberalism. Here we will treat you as a man and a brother, no matter who you are, and nowhere else can promise that. Let’s build a polity that’s faithful to the memory of all of our ancestors."
P.S. I don't know why Kuznicki uses male-gendered terms here.
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