The liberal position that history doesn’t matter is wrong. History makes demands on people. The idea that contemporary Germans or British people aren’t linked to the Holocaust or the empire is incorrect. But this cuts both ways, your past is part glorious, part bloody.
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The left wants people to be ashamed of the past (postmodernists) to manipulate them or to forget and become ahistorical economic units (liberals). The right wants us to only remember glory or advances. I say: accept both the bloodiness and the glory.
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