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When and how do you draw the time line to forgive crimes committed by a nation?
When the generation responsible for those crimes has passed away.
I'm talking from the crusades to the Indians massacre, slavery. Or last century holocaust. Some of you seem to have a pretty small memory when it comes to crimes your country have committed, and very hypocritical when discussing current themes. You got a lot of blood in your hands, since this is most yanks. I ask this question.
Yanks? Informally referring to Americans? Is this another 'let's pick on Americans' thread? What country are you from? Americans had nothing to do with the crusades or the holocaust. Indian massacre? What about all the white men, women, and children the American Indian killed? Whole innocent families who moved out West when the country was growing.
Slavery was a massacre? I thought the slaves were used for labor in the South, not massacred. Brazil had twice the number of slaves the Americans had. What massacres have the Americans committed? On a small scale there was the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
Did we, Americans, not go over to Europe to help the allies fight the Germans in WWII? Germany had not done anything to America. American resources and lives. WWI, China, Philippines, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, etc. Only country that ever attacked the U.S. was Japan, and Hawaii was not even a state in the Union at the time.
Some true massacres:
. Armenian genocide, 1920
. Stalin's massacre (USSR), 1930-1940
. Holocaust by the Germans, 1945
. Partition of India into Pakistan, 1947
. The Khmer Rouge massacre of Cambodians, 1975
. China, Mao's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 (78 million dead Chinese) *
. Rwanda genocide, 1994
. Bosnia genocide, 1995
. Myanmar (Burma) genocide of the Rohingya, 2017-18
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