“ From the genocidal practices inflicted on Native Americans (my father’s people) to the irradiated ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the killing fields of the Philippines, Vietnam, Iraq, South and Central America and Central Asia, the people of the U.S. have refused to acknowledge and take ownership of the collective sins they carry. German soldiers were no more evil than their fellows in the U.S. military, who, for example, man the operation systems of Cruise Missiles and navigate predator drones, and kill, detached from feeling, from thousands of miles away. After all, they are only following orders, just doing their jobs as loyal soldiers and good Americans…just like all those good Germans of my grandmother’s day.
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America’s Escape from Knowing (via azspot)
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