Yes we were racist.
Yes we kept slaves and profited from it.
Yes we slaughtered millions in the name of empire.
"So what? "
In reality, only a small handful of people are responsible for these crimes.
Govt.
Highlighting real history is not a culture war.
Being critical of your own country's past is not left, its not woke, its humane.
Pretending that what happened in the past didn't happen, is far worse.
It suggests an unwillingness to learn from the past to improve in the future.
Yes we were racist.
Yes we kept slaves and profited from it.
Yes we slaughtered millions in the name of empire.
"So what? "
In reality, only a small handful of people are responsible for these crimes.
Govt.
But those who bear the guilt project it onto the rest of us.
In any country, can you really smear its people on the basis of what it's govt does?
Does the govt in this country represent me and my views?
They couldn't be further from my viewpoint.
Sadly, people will still judge us based on what our govt does and has done in the past.
Neither then or now, does a govt ever truly represent its people.
That's why you need to teach "all" history and not some of it.
History has to be seen as a whole.
You can't pick and choose the bits you want to portray because it reflects well on you.
That's how you create hatred..
Through revisionism.
(well half English😉)
I do have to acknowledge the awful things done in our name.
And I do acknowledge those things.
But I don't bear responsibility for those things.
The people who made those decisions do.
The people who did those things do.
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