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I agree, but I'd argue it's even more interesting why we even bother with this question in case of China and Russia, but never with USA, which was built in equa
by trasz 5y ago
I agree, but I'd argue it's even more interesting why we even bother with this question in case of China and Russia, but never with USA, which was built in equally immoral way, by killing off the natives, stealing their land, and then kidnapping slaves to work it.
- justicezyx 5y agoIt's emotionally hard for one to accept their own identified group's wrongdoings. For this, I always start with the history of China and then followed by pointers to US histories, if the conversation flow allows. There is also a persistent danger that this flow eventually leads to political nihilism where there is no meaning in trying to dissecting the historical facts, and everyone is as bad as everyone else. That effectively moves the discussion back to the starting point, i.e., one has to look for something else to settle the original discussion anyway.