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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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Every single country ever is founded via conquest. Does that make it okay and good? Of course not, but if you really want to go through and do this sanctimonious accounting of history and somehow try to rectify past injustices, there are a whole lot of centuries of human history to go through before america even existed.
America became extremely powerful and influential though so I understand why people go out of their way to single out American atrocities as if they are particularly unique, but it still gives you a completely skewed and false sense of history.
People talk about things like "giving the land back" to native americans still living today. I get it, seems logical enough, until you ask them which tribe we give it back to? The tribe that had it first, or the other tribe that massacred that tribe and took it from them? Oops! Moral grandstanding gets dicey quick when you have to consider the totality of history and not just cherrypick through it.
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Great philosophy if your goal is keeping the status quo in place, and deliberately paralyze yourself
History is oceans of blood, guess we can't do better so I guess no action is the correct action
Welp glad we brushed that dirt off our collective shoulders
What's that, the neoliberal American politician decrying Chinese Uyghur genocide or the treatment of Tibetans? Well, considering the long history between those peoples I guess we had better just do nothing at all
Sure glad we wrestled that octopus
01-09-2022, 07:29 PM
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