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Daily reminder that ALL atrocities are bad. Yes, even of your favorite polity (media.piefed.social)
submitted 7 hours ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1795380/daily-reminder-that-all-atrocities-are-bad-yes-even-of-your-favorite-polity

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[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They still are today. I thought you wanted to make the point of the people from the past being fundamentally different/pure.

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No, I was objecting to the misanthropic point that "humans are inherently bad".

This quote from Graeber said it best.

We are projects of collective self-creation. What if we approached human history that way? What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such? What if, instead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 0 points 1 hour ago

... Had to read that last sentence thrice. Thought it said trapped in tight shackles of inequality, instead of what it actually says.