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What are you arguing for, exactly? It sounds like you're somehow trying to justify extermination?

• mengibar10 6y ago
  I am not sure if this question directed to my comment above since you did not ask it under that thread. But if it were a mistake I am happy to answer and it is a big NO. Please read my comment again.
• eruci 6y ago
  I'm not. I'm just stating the sad fact that acknowledgement of past crimes is mostly done in western democracies. I've never seen, for example, a similar speech by a Turkish, Chinese or Pakistani politician about the crimes committed in the name of their nation state and the collective myths used to keep it all together.
  • chadlavi 6y ago
    Those nations also haven't lost a war in which the rest of the world told them, "hey, stop, you're being really evil and you're wrong." There's probably nothing special about Western Europeans/Germany in this regard except for the fact that they were forced to come to terms with their crimes.
    • luckylion 6y ago
      > Those nations also haven't lost a war in which the rest of the world told them, "hey, stop, you're being really evil and you're wrong." The Ottoman Empire did, they were allied with Germany in WW1, lost and Turkey was all that remained of the empire. It hasn't change the tune, though. Japan did as well, and they're also ahead of the world average, but I believe it's still quite a way off from the Western approach. They have become more pacifist than Western countries though. > There's probably nothing special about Western Europeans/Germany in this regard except for the fact that they were forced to come to terms with their crimes. I don't think that's accurate. The US, France or the UK did not lose a war either, yet they very much did look at their past atrocities. Not enough, I'm sure some will argue, but still a lot more than the world average.