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GuyOfDoom said:
That guy seems to be selectively paying attention to many things, history in particular. But then again most people who are tend to forget Japanese internment or the Red Scare.
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Or the Armenian genocide, or the systematic elimination of native americans, or the Dresden, or Tokyo, firebombing. Where I live we had a systematic elimination of the native population, either killing them off or shipping them off to an island to die. History is full of such things and they only become controversial should the perpetrators fall afoul of public opinion. One could be principled and equally decry all such things, but bother pointing out the problem to people and I feel they tend to argue they were the enemy at the time, or ask where Armenia is. In the face of such things what's the point. Much of what the majority of the population takes as gospel tends to be otherwise if you bother to look into it. One of my hobbies is studying history, and people ask me why I get depressed
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