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In reply to the discussion: U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel [View all]Xithras
(16,191 posts)Those who believe in it are no better than the Nazi's or the KKK. It's the same ideology those organizations were built upon, and it's an ideology that regularly leads to acts of horrific violence and genocide.
"Some members of 'INSERT ETHNIC/SOCIAL GROUP HERE' committed the crime of 'INSERT CRIME HERE'. All members of 'INSERT ETHNIC/SOCIAL GROUP HERE' share some blame. All members of 'INSERT ETHNIC/SOCIAL GROUP HERE' share guilt."
Once you start with that premise that someone is guilty simply because of who they are, escalating things is simply a matter of bringing "justice" to the "guilty".
Everything from the Nazi's killing the Jews, to the killing fields of Cambodia and the Rwandan Genocide can be traced to the same underlying concept of collectivized guilt. Hell, slavery itself was justified using the concept, because it was long believed by Christians that blacks were descended from Ham and therefore shared his curse and the guilt of his crime.
Collective guilt is racism and bigotry in one of its purest forms.