Benji Schupp
Jul 27, 2017 · 1 min read

Well-written, especially the third paragraph. It’s an interesting angle, the guilt and shame thing. Being half American and half German, I can guarantee that shame and guilt is still a huge truth for Germans, even those born ~2 generations after WW2.
But I sure don’t see a sense of shame or guilt among Americans. Definitely not for slavery that ended 150 years ago (many of todays Americans didn’t even have ancestors in America back then). I also never noticed sb expressing a notion of shame or guilt about more recent events, e.g. what led to 1M+ dead in Vietnam, nor the much more recent Iraq fiasco.
In fact, I would argue that it’s part of human nature to deny, even to themselves, being guilty. For example, even though half the nation voted for Bush, twice, it’s unlikely you’ll ever find a Bush-voter who will consider themselves to have blood on their hands for the events unleashed by ‘Shock and Awe’ and the aftermath of insanity people in that volatile region unleashed on one-another. But that’s a whole different topic — and there is no denying that Sadam was a terrible man and if people in that region acted in a decent manner, they could have had a peaceful, happier life. So it’s not ‘really’ mostly the fault of America…

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