[TaXaZ]

You know what is wrong with this statement? This is normalization: "Yes, it's bad, but you've done it too". Probably, the next is "This is part of development and we go through it..., as well!". Anyway, this sort of rationalization are one of the tricks that authoritarian regimes do and interestingly often then recruit western journalist white wash them and with a diverse assortment of such rationalizations, and much more delicate and elaborate.

[tdeck]

> Probably, the next is "This is part of development and we go through it..., as well!".

The next should be "if we (in the US) think this is horrible, what are we doing to try to make it right with indigenous people in our own country, where we actually have influence over the state's policies?", not "whoops, guess if we acknowledge the US did that too it can't be that bad."

[TaXaZ]

Agree but I'm not sure, if my comment understood correctly.

1. I didn't talk about should, I describe the problem with parent comment i.e. immorality of normalization. I have heard such justification before which goes to similar next step. That next step was what the normalizers might say.

2. It's from the point of white washers not the moral stand point that you depicts

3. As a proof, just check the comment in this section by @dirtyid which describe the 'next' I talked about:

   > Behaving like a "savage" has very little to do with time but where countries are in their development.

~~(fun fact, I didn't saw it the first time and it was delightful seeing a proof in next step above)~~

Again, If it wasn't clear originally, What I liked to bring attention to is the white-washing (normalization) of tyrannies. It has been done for Nazis and it's currently being done in western journalists and lobbyist. Look at any sort of authoritarian atrocity and you'll see a white washer in NY or DC normalizing it.