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In reply to the discussion: The USA needs to confront its true history, genocide and slavery, guns and wars. [View all]morbidly enough, what the OP claims is sort of a form of American exceptional-ism....in that we are some how exceptionally evil. Yes we have an ugly history, and Americans need to learn to face it. Other Western countries have equally if not uglier histories, but the difference is they learned or are learning to face it. But the idea that we are somehow unique in those atrocities, particularly against slaves and aboriginal people, is a farce.
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The USA needs to confront its true history, genocide and slavery, guns and wars. [View all]
Coyotl
Dec 2012
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If we did that we would have to make right a lot of the wrongs from our history and most
Cleita
Dec 2012
#1
Anthropology informs us that there are cultures where violence within it is virtually
byeya
Dec 2012
#33
You are the person promoting this sacrifice idea. Post one peer-reviewed article to back it up.
Coyotl
Dec 2012
#27
I wonder how Pinker deals with the lack of graves, but not lack of deaths, from Hiroshima
byeya
Dec 2012
#35