At some point every group has been subjected to mistreatment, and every group has mistreated another. Let's take my ancestors, the Germans, for example. It's well known that the Romans commonly owned German slaves durring the reign of the Roman Empire. Then Germans turn around a few hundred years later and persecute the Jewish people. The same can be said for any group. If I am to be heald responsible for persecuting Jews, they have to be heald responsible for their historical crimes, and the Romans have to be heald responsible for enslaving my ancetors. The bottom line is that I've never been persecuted, and I've never persecuted anyone. It's completly unnecessary to try and hold people responsible for the acts of those they'll never even know.
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