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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I don’t really know what ancestral guilt is or what it has to do with anything people are asking for. It sounds very… Christian? Not that that’s a bad thing, it’s just not really the paradigm.

People from former colonies don’t necessarily want anyone to feel guilty, they just want to get paid back. Like you’ve said, everyone who was part of the original colonial thrust has died. Now it’s just a matter of paying it back + interest and a fine, and we’re on the way to being even Steve.

This is directly contradictory to my reading, I think this is what this whole dialogue hinges on.

My argument is that holding the people of modern countries responsible for the actions of their ancestors, by imposing a debt (and 'interest and a fine'), that is ancestral guilt, and it is a fundamentally absurd concept.

this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2023
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