> Americans barely even really reckon with slavery. Compare to Germans with Nazism. Where's the slavery Auschwitz? There are minor museums here and there but it's completely incomparable.
This is a completely subjective statement. The US has slavery museums in its Washington DC, and it's a topic that is never far from public conscientiousness.
Compare that to Brazil, who's slave trade dwarfed that of North American, no formal recognition or ongoing efforts.
Or Russia slowly and methodologically erasing the crimes of the Soviet union (and Stalin particularly) from public view.
Or China reintroducing Mao as a folk hero, a mass murderer on par with Stalin.
These are real omissions and cover ups. The US could be better, absolutely. But compared to others, it at least tries to reconcile their past with modern society.
The US has "slavery museums". You don't even name them. It's utterly incomparable to Auschwitz.
Then you go on to compare the USA to China, Russia, and Brazil. High standards.
Lastly, there's a lot to be said for 1984-style repression like in those three, and Brave New World-style repression like in America.
Even comedians have nice bits about how a lot of Americans can't even really place slavery well in a timeline, it's something that happened aeons ago and descendants should "stop complaining". The majority of americans treat the idea of slavery reparations like a joke.
America doesn't really try. It makes a good show of trying, though.
> Then you go on to compare the USA to China, Russia, and Brazil. High standards.
I am comparing one country to another, one that does better than the rest. You know, how any comparison is made in any discipline. You can't just hold up an imaginary standard that no country fulfills to make your point that X country could be better.
This is a completely subjective statement. The US has slavery museums in its Washington DC, and it's a topic that is never far from public conscientiousness.
Compare that to Brazil, who's slave trade dwarfed that of North American, no formal recognition or ongoing efforts.
Or Russia slowly and methodologically erasing the crimes of the Soviet union (and Stalin particularly) from public view.
Or China reintroducing Mao as a folk hero, a mass murderer on par with Stalin.
These are real omissions and cover ups. The US could be better, absolutely. But compared to others, it at least tries to reconcile their past with modern society.