not for the easily offended?

Question

who feels that certain cultures have blown past mistakes way out of proportion, such as jews with the final resolution, it wasn't just jews that we're prosecuted!! and black people complaining about the slave trade, when they themselves would use war prisoners as slaves!!! the question is do you think some things from the past should be left in the past, english don't attack the italians for the roman invasion of britton!!!

i didnt realise they were paying people, in that case a few of my distant reletives were killed in the english civil war, i demand compensation, also the war of the roses, and the battle of waterloo, and the battle of badon hill, and the battle of....

hehe, thanks for pointing out the spelling mistake on britain, its a friend who has a surname of britton, just habbit typing that

Wars rule, the best inventions are created in war! However those who know war never want it again.

Answer 1

No-one alive to-day suffered from the slave trade,& no one alive to-day profited from it,so why should innocent people pay compensation to to people who haven't suffered?It doesn't make sense.

Answer 2

Y'know, there's a very good reason we English don't have a go at the Romans for invading Britain, and that is because when the Romans ruled Britain we hadn't even turned up yet, and were still living in N Germany, Denmark and Holland. It was only later we invaded, and I think we all know the Welsh still complain about us Anglo-Saxons turning up and pushing them into Wales.

Now, that they weren't the only cultures in history to be persecuted is true, but it doesn't make it less horrific. Remember that the Holocaust and, while not the slave trade, the persecution of Blacks in America (which was a direct follow on), is still within living memory.
That said, I do still think they should stop complaining about it, it's all finished now, and well in the past, and people who cling onto it are frankly attention seeking.

Answer 3

So the past should stay in the past eh! So everybody should now be getting on with each other, then why are white people compaining about Muslims, foreigners, black people etc.so why are newspapers whipping up mass hysteria about people at the bottom of the ladder taking people's jobs. America and the UK going around the world playing 'world's police' or should that be a thing of the past. There would be no 3rd world if it wasn't suppressed today. Hence no fair trade. These things have not ended!

Answer 4

I do feel that Israel and its supporters have used their victim status to get away with the present terrorist and racist politics of the state of Israel. They've got away with it too long in my view, and it's about time they were stopped in their tracks. The US won't do it, so it's up to the Europeans,
I'm Irish, and we have seen that the only way to resolve a conflict is everybody talking to each other. The British tried for ages to use violence to end the conflict, AND IT DID NOT WORK. Even now there is no final settlement, but at least we don't shoot each other any more. (Except for the occasional homicidal maniac, like last week)
The Irish are famous for bearing a grudge through the centuries, and if WE can start being reasonable, everybody can.
I can't say much about black people, I think most of them would be happy enough to be accepted as normal human beings by everyone, and some leaders only took their bad example from the Israelis.

Answer 5

This seems like two different questions to me.

The question of reparations to the Jews has to do with the MILLIONS of arts, antiques, and irreplaceable family heirlooms that were heisted by the Nazis, and hidden by the Swiss.

The question of reparations is a fair one. The Jews were not an opposing force, they were citizens.


I also agree that the past cannot be undone, and we all need to focus more seriously on the future and not repeating the mistakes of the past.

Answer 6

Some of what you say is true.. And you can't judge people living today based on the mistakes of their forefathers.

In comment to the slave trade it's important to also note that a lot of African nations sold their own people or rivals to slave traders, there were people of color who contributed to the slave trade and profited from it as well. That is something no one ever talks about!

Answer 7

The Jews have so abused their past. They get all offended when Hungarains, Poles. Gypsies, whoever try to mention that millions of their poeple were slaughtered in those same camps. That might deflect from their yelling ANTI SENITESISM when anybody tries to point out the genocide that is going on right now to the Palestians. By Them the very Jews who should be most sympathic to this. Unfortunately it looks like that trauma has led them to identify themselves with the Nazi's.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Those responsible for crimes against humanity should be punished while they are still alive. Violations of law and ethics should be punished. Systematic violations like the genocide of the Nazis against the Jews, Gypsies and extermination of the physically deformed should be punished and made public. There should also be ongoing analysis as to how simple everyday Germans and collaborators allowed such slaughter to take place without protest or rebellion. Man's inhumanity to man should always be watched out for, opposed, resisted and fought against.

Answer 10

I see your point. However, to bring meaning and relevancy by using examples is very useful, although I would suggest more recent ones are likely to be more effective, like say in the last 100 years or so.
And remember "a person who forgets their history will see it repeating itself". I think this very true saying, as I'm afraid us humans forget very quickly.

Hope this helps.

Answer 11

I agree.We can not judge the past by the values we share today.We must consider the existing scheme of things at the time in question.
What we did to American Indians was the way things were done at that time. People took by force what they wanted, and ownership was granted to whoever was strong enough to keep it.