Some will argue that #reparations have been paid to the internees, so we shouldn't have to talk about this history or dwell on it any longer.
But rehearsing this #history is important, in part, for the way it creates pressure and incentive to enact #justice for other groups and victims whose injuries have never been fully acknowledged, much less repaired.
@xankarn@worldwarshistory@histodons I can't wrap my head around the idea that any history is "done" and should no longer be talked about or studied 🤷♀️
Agree. We hear, in some circles, the notion that discussions of past injustice are divisive or that they foist guilt unfairly onto the living.
I see it differently. What's divisive, I'd say, are the blockades that these people erect to prevent more conversation/contemplation.
Nor do I buy arguments about collective guilt. Engaging w historical injustice is abt weighing responsibilities of citizenship, not villifying the perps or their descendants.
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