You know, contrary to the cliché people keep spouting, I have never, ever seen any evidence that learning history causes you to not repeat it
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Nothing that is happening today is a "mistake" George Floyd's death was not a "mistake", Mike Brown's death was not a "mistake", Trayvon Martin's death was not a "mistake" Jim Crow was not a "mistake", the Civil War was not a "mistake", slavery was not a "mistake"
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This constant reluctance to admit that *people are on different sides* This utter horseshit trying to turn intentional, carefully executed evil into misunderstandings and errors
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The comforting lie of Hanlon's Razor, preferring to believe that people are just stupid and incompetent as opposed to quite smart and good at their jobs and they just hate you "These football players aren't really any good at the sport, they keep running the ball the wrong way"
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That's not really how I understand it (or the purpose of learning H). People keep doing the same shit over & over again because either a) it actually works (if only for them) or b) the same forces cause them to think & reach similar conclusions & actions because they "make sense"
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