It's frightening that this needs to be explained again. There must be something intuitive about condemning people for the sins of their forefathers because it reoccurs so frequently.https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/944356682548703232 …
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I'd be absolutely stunned if the US focuses on the many wrong things it's done in its past in the classroom in the way Germany does. The USA is by a million miles, the most loudly patriotic country in the Western world. The American dream depends on believing in its goodness.
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OK. And is patriotism bad? Does it relate to everything a country has done in its past or what it does now? What is it calling good? Is it slavery? I don't live there so I don't know but it looks to me like > 99% of Americans know slavery happened and that it was bad.
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And for massive swathes of Americans, believing in its goodness means ignoring almost anything inconvenient. HRC: "America is great because America is good". That's not even grown-up.
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Of course. This happens all over. It's known as confirmation bias. Rightists gloss over inconvenient elements of themselves and their history and so do leftists.
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Exactly, Helen.
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