• DillDough@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    Because for some reason everyone always collectively agrees that it’s absolutely unacceptable to ever punish racists. Didn’t happen for the Confederacy, or for the lynchers, or the anti civil rights adults who attacked children for simply attempting to attend school, not the actual Nazis or the American Nazi party nor it’s predecessor (look that one up). Everyone collectively agrees we must punish everyday people for everyday crimes but never ever can we even consider punishment for the richest and most powerful commiting the most heinous crimes at national or even global scale…no that would be too “cruel”, so we must allow them to fester and destroy every bit of progress our species ever makes no matter how many millions of us had to die for that centimeter of progress.

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      5 days ago

      Sounds like the US needs something like a “guillotine phase” in its national history and collective consciousness to address this.

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      The reason is clear. The state was founded by literal enslavers. It’s never going to denounce its idols or confront the repercussions of this extremely racist core.

      They’re never ever ever going to face the reality of people Washington, Jefferson, etc. Those monuments to racism, genocide, etc. will be defended to the death.

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      See, you say that, but every time I call out the French for being baby eating cannibal slaver scum of the earth, its all “the past is history” and “you can’t hold a grudge”. Every single country touched by France has been made worse. There is nothing at all redeemable about their culture or traditions. Its all shit and violence, all the way down to the core.