Such a ridiculous point of view, you could write off almost the whole of human history like this:

America's Westward expansion: Witnessed the systematic genocide of an entire people and culture.

Britain's Imperial Age: Possibly some of the most heinous, brutal and unscrupulous acts committed ever... too long a list, but the Opium Wars springs to mind, as does the slave trade which killed about 3 million Africans during the middle passage.

The Elizabethan age; O.k, so you had Shakespeare, but the people who watched Shakespeare were loud, foul-mouthed, lewd and probably incredibly smelly cunts, who would urinate over each other whilst watching it. Also, his plays weren't as popular as the gruesome public executions, and whilst going to watch them if you strayed to close to a window you might get covered in the human shit someone was throwing from it.

The Romans: Emperor Caligula was a complete sociopathic sadist who loved nothing more than dressing up as a Lion in the Gladiatorial arena and mutilating people's genitals before they were put to death. Meanwhile, Nero provided light for his parties by covering Christians in tar and burning them. And Tiberius, one of the better Emperors, used to throw people of the cliffs of Capri just for the fun of it, whilst also torturing a fisherman with a giant crab that he brought him as a present, and allegedly indulging in recreational pedophilia.

And then you've got the Greeks, who gave us Athens, but also Sparta, which was a totally segregated, completely brutal society which institutionalized child abuse and pederasty, if the children survived being abandoned at birth, and expected men to kidnap and rape their wives in place of a marriage ceremony.

Should we write off all these civilisations too?