Originally Posted by
francesco.decaro
"Respect the past" is a pretty broad statement, don't you think?
What do you mean? Respect your grandfather's wisdom? Study history? Or worship 5 dudes with a wig who owned slaves and cry when the national anthem is on?
As I said, acknowledging the importance of history and recognizing its role in today's context is one thing. Worshipping individuals from the past as if they were the only ones responsible to make large scale events happen, and taking pride in what they did hundreds of years ago, is silly.
So there are distinctions to be made when you talk about respecting the past, because there are many, many, irrespectable things that humans did in the past.