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[โ€“] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The Confederates in America got off easy, and look what their descendants have become: MAGATs. What that tells me, is that the confederates were only sorry for losing, not that they processed trauma and developed empathy.

It would be good if your path works. Unfortunately, I cannot find the faith to believe in your position.

The concentration camps of CECOT and Alligator Auschwitz shouldn't exist. Noem Kristi making light of 65 million latino lives as alligator feed, it doesn't inspire confidence in the humanity of whom I once considered to be American. I will hope you are right, but I cannot wager on it.

[โ€“] Disaster@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Concentration camps have existed in the US and Canada before. First for indigenous populations and then for the Japanese after Peal Harbor.

And you're right, it's a sore test of faith to allow people to continue to live in bigotry - and especially difficult when they are doing everything in their power to hurt you. Unfortunately short of "killing them all", which is a path that will lead to exactly the same outcomes over time, it has to be done.

There is a reason a path of faith is considered a harder path.