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by eighthnate 3195 days ago
> That's an odd standard to set. Racial discrimination, based on ethnicity, also used to be a global norm, yet that didn't and doesn't excuse the crimes of the Third Reich.

It's a terrible habit we have as a nation. We are happy to forgive or excuse our sins but hold others to theirs.
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aaron-lebo 3195 days ago
How exactly do you determine the habit of 300 million people? How do you differentiate that habit from the Japanese who refuse to officially recognize war crimes in China or the Belgians and Germans whose grandparents wre killing Congolese and Jews respectively?

If people in this thread were being honest they'd be well aware that this particularly American flaw isn't so specific to the US.

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eighthnate 3195 days ago
> If people in this thread were being honest they'd be well aware that this particularly American flaw isn't so specific to the US.

Sure. It's probably a human trait. But I'm not japanese or belgian or german so I wouldn't know.

But I'm responding to a comment which "excused" our sins and I'm an american so that's why I made the comment.

If it is a human trait, so be it. But the fact that you are pointing to the sins of others kinda proves my point doesn't it?

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