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That's a disputed take. Here in France we only just now had a president recognizing our role in the Rwanda genocide, which happened 20 years ago. Overall I'm
by PoignardAzur 5y ago
That's a disputed take.
Here in France we only just now had a president recognizing our role in the Rwanda genocide, which happened 20 years ago.
Overall I'm seeing a lot more people calling for being proud of our nation and moving past inconvenient historical details than self-flagellation.
Macron is an exception in how much he stands for the "duty to memory" thing. Most people are fine believing their country can do nothing wrong.
- throwawaylinux 5y agoThat's not what I was talking about. Of course governments are not going to easily admit their own crimes and incompetence and failures -- the same as in the US they don't admit their failures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria etc for example. But they absolutely do love to push the moral and economic burden for such things on to the common person. And of course people are proud of their country and history and societies because that's normal healthy part of the human condition. This behavior and thought is increasingly shamed and bullied though.