While I don't agree with every principle, I absolutely concur with the concept of acknowledging our historical blunders. There is no question that Germany was able to reunify and prosper precisely because it faced its unimaginable genocidal history. In order to create a better and fairer future, we must collectively understand our past. The idea that admitting mistakes a deliberate wrongs is equivalent to 'manufactured guilt' is quite revealing. You don't need to dwell in the past, you need to teach it honestly. Moving on didn't work, affirmative action was marginally successful with unintended consequences, GOP gaslighting will backfire, so what is the answer to a country still so incredibly far from its idealistic prose, and moving backwards by the day?
Sorry, I like some of the ideas here, but not many. We don't need "truth commissions" devoted to discovering "crimes" that, for good or ill, were not crimes when they were committed. There are so many positive things that can be done; instead, we get a laundry list of CRT cliches that would be rejected by 90% of the black people in the U.S., who have too much common sense to approve this stale dish of manufactured guilt. And, yes, I am an old white man--one who is distinctly unimpressed with what is presented here.
While I don't agree with every principle, I absolutely concur with the concept of acknowledging our historical blunders. There is no question that Germany was able to reunify and prosper precisely because it faced its unimaginable genocidal history. In order to create a better and fairer future, we must collectively understand our past. The idea that admitting mistakes a deliberate wrongs is equivalent to 'manufactured guilt' is quite revealing. You don't need to dwell in the past, you need to teach it honestly. Moving on didn't work, affirmative action was marginally successful with unintended consequences, GOP gaslighting will backfire, so what is the answer to a country still so incredibly far from its idealistic prose, and moving backwards by the day?
Sorry, I like some of the ideas here, but not many. We don't need "truth commissions" devoted to discovering "crimes" that, for good or ill, were not crimes when they were committed. There are so many positive things that can be done; instead, we get a laundry list of CRT cliches that would be rejected by 90% of the black people in the U.S., who have too much common sense to approve this stale dish of manufactured guilt. And, yes, I am an old white man--one who is distinctly unimpressed with what is presented here.