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Originally Posted by DevilsSon
It's not about being surprised though. It's about how we think. Really, should colonial crimes be taught in school? Be treated similarly to the holocaust? Or simply ignored? When I think of the holocaust, I get shivers down my back and wonder how humans could have been possibly so evil? When I think of colonialism, I get zero emotions...
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There's a really important distinction between colonialism and the holocaust though - namely that colonialism had quite a lot of aims and the suffering of many was a byproduct of that. It's more of an amoral Machiavellian way of thinking that they simply didn't care if indigenous people got hurt as long as they got what they wanted. The holocaust was just downright wanton evil for evil's sake.