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b-boy bouiebaisse@jbouie.bsky.social |
responsibility ≠ guilt. no one should feel guilt for something they had no part of, but as members of this society with a responsibility for its well-being, i think we do incur an obligation to remedy the contemporary effects of past injustice
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Weekend Editor
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“Above all, the prophets remind us of the moral state of a people: Few are guilty, but all are responsible.”
— Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets
www.someweekendreading.blog/quotes/#:~:t....
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David
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And even when nobody's talking about a remedy, often just saying "this historical injustice was unjust" gets a chorus of "WHitE GuiLT"
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@napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social
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David French did a really excellent piece on this, say, a couple of years ago, and I don't recall where it appeared.
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Ryan
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People who feel pride in America's historical achievements also should take responsibility for its failures as well. Adopting a nation is like adopting a child: you take the good and the bad together.
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Marcas Ó Doibhilin
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This was basically the position of the first president of post-WWII, democratic Germany: no collective guilt, but collective responsibility. There’s a lot one can criticize the Germans for, but as a general matter they’ve taken this part very seriously.
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Block+Move on
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Exactly. When talking about those parts of history I almost always have to preface for my white students that they should never feel guilty about anything that happened in the past. But this is the country we live in and a country is responsible for what it does.
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Airball
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The distinction I found helpful comes out of the TRC in South Africa and is beneficiary vs perpetrator. Many people have family who did not participate in the slave trade, or actively enforce Jim Crow, but they certainly benefited from it.
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