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Originally Posted by pan6467
All we can do is learn from the past and move forward and hope we do not repeat the past.
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All we achieve, by bringing up the past and using it in ways to show how evil someone 500 years ago was, is division, resentments and allowing some to feel self righteous over others. It is bullshit
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I can't reconcile the inherent contradictions in those two statements.
We need to learn from the past.
Bringing up the past is divisive.
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and to say "we are doing it so we can learnfrom mistakes" is equally bullshit because to learn from mistakes we must learn why those mistakes were made, what situations were going on, in other words we must wear Columbus's shoes, the Indians shoes and the shoes of those who lost and profited most. And we must do this without any bias' and prejudgements. Then and only then can we see the whole picture and learn from it.
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And this one hurts my head ...
It's bullshit to claim bringing up the past is an attempt to learn from mistakes because we need to bring up the past in order to learn from mistakes.