• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    History doesn’t have “good guys” and “bad guys” though, it has people, and good and bad actions. We shouldn’t fall into the trap of excusing awful behaviour because it is done by someone on “our team”

    The liberal mentality doesn’t have good or bad actions, just good and bad teams. The “right side of history” nonsense. If someone is a designated “bad guy” then they are automatically bad, even if they have to make up reasons why. They don’t believe in motivations behind actions, just tautological nonsense about “bad guys doing bad guy things because they are bad guys.” and in turn, by refusing to understand why something has happened, they make it inevitable that it happens again. We need to be better than this, and avoid past mistakes.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think that just because someone is good or bad or on “our team” excuses their actions, and I agree the bigger overall point is to learn from mistakes and crises.

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        1 year ago

        Oh sorry! I realise I was sounding accusatory there, I didn’t mean to sound like that. I meant in general, you weren’t sounding like that at all.