PeteEU The French still get ridiculed on a daily basis by American's because they surrendered to the German's in WW2.
Then point out something they said today. In fact the French are ridiculed for their anti Americanism, just as are other Western Europeans.
The Germans get the "nazi" jab when ever someone starts to loose an argument against them and the Brits are great at reminding the Germans about the war
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Yes, I saw that Fawlty Towers episode. Those who use these arguments from the past should think twice. When Germans start lecturing Americans about "the Indians", for example, then it's fair to remind them of their own horrendous history. No European is in any position of taking a 'Holier than thou' attitude with Americans, not with their history.
Israel officials go often out of their way to remind people of the holocaust as often as they can.
Well I suppose they well might, considering that other holocausts by ignorant Muslims are being discussed openly today. That is not just history, it is ongoing.
People use "guilt" against people they disagree with on a daily basis and there is enough guilt to go around.
If someone is guilty of contemporary crimes then it is fair game. If it is ancestral it is not, unless they are condoning, excusing or repeating those same crimes today.
Of course there is a time limit of sorts.. I dont feel shame for how the Vikings raped the English Islands, but I do feel a bit shamed over the Danish owned slave farms in the West Indies and feel a lot of shame and responsibility to what happened during WW2. I am not saying that we should feel responsibility for the sins of our fathers that happened 200+ years ago, but stuff that happened in recent history.. you betcha.
So you feel we should continue to slag the French, Russians and Germans? Go ahead, but unless they are defending Nazism, Fascism or Communism, I'll probably defend them.
The US should feel guilty as a nation for the **** that it did to these people in Honduras and its own people (native American's and black American's) later on.
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LOL! It's not up to some Eurolefty to decide whether Americans should still feel guilty or not. You should look closer to home if your searching for someone to find fault with.
.Every nation has its dark moments.. The French and Algeria, Spain and Franco, Britain and its former colonies, Germany, Ital and Ethiopia, Turkey and the Ottoman Empire and so on. Ignoring these sins just because they happened before you were born and not feeling guilty that your nation could do such things... is just... pathetic denial.
What a small miserable life you must lead.
Plus if we dont acknowledge our sins, then we are doomed to repeat them.
We can learn from the past certainly but those lessons are often lost, only to be repeated over and over again. We can see that going on today.