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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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @amyalkon @HPluckrose
Totally agree. But how do US history school syllabuses cover what happened to indigenous peoples, for example?
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Replying to @shaunjlawson @amyalkon
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @amyalkon
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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Replying to @shaunjlawson @HPluckrose
Again, you are not responsible for any behavior but your own. You can work toward change in the present, if you think there are ugly and wrong practices in your country. You are not responsible for your country's past.
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Replying to @amyalkon @HPluckrose
We keep agreeing on that point. You've both completely ignored the actual point I've made throughout.
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Replying to @shaunjlawson @amyalkon
What is it? Where do you think we differ?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @amyalkon
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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