• CatAssTrophy@safest.space
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    8 days ago

    Not necessarily.

    If I bake a cake, I can stop it from burning. If I leave that cake baking until my children are adults, they have no way to unburn the cake. At some point, they have to toss it in the compost bin and wait before it can help fertilize a new generation.

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      7 days ago

      I don’t know what to do for you if you think the government that genocided a thousand nations just to exist, enslaved a whole chunk of the planet by skin color, then wink wink “got rid of slavery” while keeping it firmly entrenched in society for over a century, and has gone through several concentration camp phases, was “an unburned cake”. It was certainly “burned” in the 50s or 80s or whatever your silly, arbitrary timeframe is.

      Romanticizing the past, when you had no control, ain’t going to help you if you’re searching for truth. It will help if you’re looking to feel better, but in the process you’ll ostracize allies who do recognize the “burn” I have mentioned, and be unable to genuinely create anything that is beneficial to all.