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In reply to the discussion: Why do we still support Saudi Arabia? [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)It might have been against our will but we were there.
When I was in college one of my professors was a young German man who had first been born into Nazi Germany, then lived in the USSR in East Germany and then escaped into West Germany when he was 16 years old.
In his class we discussed group morality. The idea of being guilty because you belonged to a group that did a wrong and did nothing to stop it. He was 10 years old when he lived under the Nazis. His argument was that he did not protest the wrong so he became part of it.
I think there is some truth to that. That is what BLM members were trying to tell those of who are white when they first started protesting and telling us that we are part of the problem? What we got so angry about was that they did not allow that many of did and do protest what is going on.
So the question is not - were we involved but rather did we do anything to stop it? Many did and still are - both against the War and against the racism that results in the deaths of so many young people of color.