I always thought people meant that phrase metaphorically. But it’s 2020 and I can’t expect anything sensible from anyone anymore.
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Sure, but what our descendants will say is unknowable and a poor substitute for prosecuting crimes in the here and now.
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But then how do we find out who killed Canadian history?
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Donald Creighton
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You're right, which is why ad hoc criminal justice systems like the Nuremberg Trials are, on the one hand, extraordinary, and on the other, as normal as any system of rule of law that is created in the aftermath of violence and then maintained by the threat of state violence.
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When theology is out of fashion and your elites exist above the law, you get people fantasizing about history as some form of secular redemption
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Right. "History" is secular lib version of "leave her to Heaven."
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