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The US has "slavery museums". You don't even name them. It's utterly incomparable to Auschwitz. Then you go on to compare the USA to China, Russia, and Brazil.
by RodericDay 10y ago
The US has "slavery museums". You don't even name them. It's utterly incomparable to Auschwitz.
Then you go on to compare the USA to China, Russia, and Brazil. High standards.
Lastly, there's a lot to be said for 1984-style repression like in those three, and Brave New World-style repression like in America.
Even comedians have nice bits about how a lot of Americans can't even really place slavery well in a timeline, it's something that happened aeons ago and descendants should "stop complaining". The majority of americans treat the idea of slavery reparations like a joke.
America doesn't really try. It makes a good show of trying, though.
- seppin 10y ago> Then you go on to compare the USA to China, Russia, and Brazil. High standards. I am comparing one country to another, one that does better than the rest. You know, how any comparison is made in any discipline. You can't just hold up an imaginary standard that no country fulfills to make your point that X country could be better. Some people live in the real world.
- RodericDay 10y ago> You can't just hold up an imaginary standard that no country fulfills I can't tell if you're joking. My post was literally about Germany, Nazism, and Auschwitz. > Some people live in the real world. The classic riposte of someone who prefers rationalizing to themselves why they are at an optimum than trying to do better. Nice try, Dr. Pangloss.