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Why is it difficult for America to condemn its savage past when other nations condemned theirs long ago?

Does condemnation of past crimes rebuke privileges enjoyed now as a result of them?

Posted - August 19, 2017

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  • 8214
    The Egyptians did it by chiseling away the face on statutes and carvings.
      August 19, 2017 4:14 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Past????  I think, seriously, that that's one of the reasons they don't like to.. because there is a lot still going on, certainly in recent history.. 
      August 20, 2017 1:02 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    Exactly. Much of its savage past is sadly alive and well, as we saw in Charlottesville last week.
      August 20, 2017 1:05 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    Well, true - not that my own country is a paragon of virtue. 
      August 20, 2017 1:11 PM MDT
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  • 7126
    No country is; no person is. I think the world runs into trouble when it pretends otherwise.
      August 20, 2017 1:12 PM MDT
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