RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 13, 2017 at 11:24 am
(August 13, 2017 at 10:54 am)Khemikal Wrote: It's possible to be proud of what a person did and got right while simultaneously acknowledging what they did and got wrong. The trouble only crops up when a person, for whatever reason™ is incapable of adequately identifying the latter. All of us have ancestors that were on the wrong side of history in some x. That much was, before the fact, an inevitability, and after the fact, an unfortunate consequence of that inevitability.
Sure we do. I'm sure I have ancestors way back when that probably did some really shitty things. I wouldn't know who they are because I can't trace my ancestry back very far. But I'm sure they exist. The thing is -- I'm not proud of them. I don't see why i should be. What, because their sperm met someone else's egg, and then that person produced a sperm or egg that met with another sperm or egg... process repeating itself until I'm born?
