RE: Israel
February 24, 2013 at 11:29 am
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2013 at 11:36 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 24, 2013 at 3:31 am)AtlasS Wrote: I really have nothing to say to you after this line, especially !You didn't have much to say before my response though, and that's the point I was trying to drive home with it.
Quote:A big shock for me.. for you to empathize with people who kicked millions out of their land & took it, but as we all know : nobody blamed american for taking the land from the nativesMore like empathizing for the people who got the short end of the expansion stick. Is someone "blaming" some other culture for what happened to the native american cultures? I wasn't aware, as it's made pretty clear - to middle schoolers here- precisely what happened when two worlds collided and who was involved. America blames america for the effects of expansion. Native cultures were obliterated, and I'm not exactly going to point the fickle finger at those who resisted that - but I wouldn't excuse anyone for their actions if those actions involved engaging in a campaign of terrorism (any more than one might excuse those who did precisely the same thing as they expanded westward - for example). I'm not sure why you think otherwise, and I'm not sure whether or not you imagine that there is any culture that isn't guilty on this charge.
History is cruel, vae victus, but misdeeds of the past or present do not excuse ones own misdeeds in the past or present. You're going to need to add a hell of alot of meat to this broth before I'll call it a stew.
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