It's almost unbelievable. It's a way to shame people that they just can't come back from. I mean, what's the answer -- "Sorry, let me just fire up my time machine here, and go back & try to talk great-great-great-great gramps into not being such a murderous asshole"?
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Totally agree. But how do US history school syllabuses cover what happened to indigenous peoples, for example?
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By covering it. There is no need to add in that people who weren't born at that time should be blamed now.
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How is it covered? In honest, comprehensive detail? Ditto, of course, slavery? There's no need for Germans not around at the time to feel responsible about the Nazis - but they do learn about them and are ruthlessly, rigorously honest with themselves about their nation's past.
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Yes and that's what should happen. Surely you see the difference between covering what happened in rigorous, comprehensive detail and blaming people for it who weren't alive then? It's not difficult.
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Yes I do. As I've said in every tweet in this exchange.
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So what do you disagree with? Neither of us said history shouldn't be taught honestly, did we?
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People who promote such Concepts as white privilege fail to grasp just how dangerous class guilt is. As we saw the Soviet Union it ended horribly.
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Do you think I could get a few quid off my father in law? He's from Rome and enriched by the cruel subjugation of the Welsh by the Romans.
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It's just the old "guilt by association" fallacy transposed to familial relations.
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They get to be in with the righteous and separated from the hoi-polloi without doing any work.
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It is especially easy to do because a) our moralities come later than theirs and we assume are thus automatically more advanced and superior, and b) they're all dead so they can't defend themselves.
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Moralising history is a cheap and easy way to proclaim one’s superior virtue.
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The powerful message in John Steinbeck’s East of Eden is that we all have the power to choose good over evil.
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