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by stjohnswarts
1281 days ago
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Should I just say "I don't want special treatment" then? I'll come out and say that. If a private company or individual wants to give out cultural/racially based scholarships/financial aid then more power to them. Why does everyone assume that others don't know that some European countries had evil colonial period histories. It's too late to make up for those ills. Move on and quit living in the past. Let's start treating people "right" now, not forever be digging up the past. Use it for context and lessons learned and not keep this race war and white guilt (or cultural guilt?) alive forever. It only serves to keep up 99% split up and infighting. Aka we can't fix the world's problems before we work on the ones at home. Why drag our children down with the ills done by our ancestors? |
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Do you apply the same viewpoint to everything else? When is too late? 1 year? 5 years? 50 years?
It took 45 years for Japanese American internees to get reparations. Was that too late? Should they have given up because they were living in the past?
In today's news, "Nazi secretary, 97, convicted for role in 10,000 murders at death camp". That was 75 years ago. Is that too late? Do you think the German prosecutors live in the past?
People right now are survivors of European colonial atrocities. Why shouldn't living Kenyans who were tortured by British troops get compensation for the Mau Mau rebellion?
> Why drag our children down with the ills done by our ancestors?
It appears that you want to teach our children that they can commit whatever atrocities they want in a less powerful country and, so long as they say "it's complicated" they can put off dealing with it forever.
Do you think the children of those tortured are so easy to forgive?
"Race" is a cultural creation meant to control people. I reject "white guilt" as being a meaningful concept since I've only seen it used as social control meant to keep others from doing what is right.
We need only to look at the long-held animosity between Irish and English to know that animosity does not disappear in a generation, and that "white guilt" is an artificial term.