Originally Posted by
Nicholas Laureys
And my point is, so what? America's constant apologizing over the past thirty years has NOT lead to greater social cohesion: the aggrieved are never satisfied and those who are blamed start to masochistically hate themselves.
So this gov't stance of NOT apologizing for your icky past is DEFINITELY the way to strengthen societies: that "dirty" history is part of what shaped your culture into what it is today, anyway, so to apologize for it would be to apologize for your very culture, which CANNOT lead to healthier, stronger societies.
Seriously, this blaming, complaining, and apologizing crap of the West needs to go. We even do it with all our "green" crap, talking about how "eco-guilty" you should feel. But anyways, if the police officers and politicians kneeling to BLM wasn't enough to convince you that Russia apologizing for Stalin will NEVER satisfy the aggreived or make your younger generations stronger and more patriotic, I don't know what else to tell you.