Thread:Comments:Britain thinks Africans are barbaric, claims South African President/"Firstly, respect all cultures. Now look at those nasty British Imperialists!"

Zuma claims "no one has the authority of judging cultures," but his attitudes are internally inconsistent because all the while he's condemning the British for having some residue of imperial culture, one belief of which was its own superiority. Furthermore, the whole idea that nobody can judge cultures is ridiculous. In fact, everyone can. If a culture's practices are barbaric, unjust, cruel or inimical to the advancement of knowledge or personal happiness, how is it that we cannot judge it? What about the antebellum culture that was founded on enslavement of the black race? What about the culture of inequality of women which has led to such barbarisms and injustices as women burned on the funeral pyres of their husbands, punished for the "crime" of being raped, and mutilated in their genitals? Any attempt to say these practices are somehow not "cultural" is just a "no true Scotsman" line of argument.