Comments by "suraj s" (@surajs5913) on "'Dutch king has apologised for Indian Ocean slave trade, time for India to own up to its mistakes'" video.

If the dutch king apologises for the sins of his ancestors, then is he a casteist who beleives that current generation are responsible for the sins of the preceding generation? If modern Indians need to take accountability for past slave trade, does it mean we also need to take account of the hustory of religious discrimination? Wil that be collective accountability where all Indians apologise to all Indians for the acts of aurangazeb or just one particular other community apologising? If affirmative action based on caste is constitutional, then shouldnt affirmative action based on religion also be constitutional?
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@chubbymoth5810 Many developed nations as a collective are unwilling to be aware of a wide variety of historical aspects and even modern political ideologies. The common narratives on hindutva being peddled globally is a good example of that. Certainly India as a collective has no monopoly over immaturity or ignorance... Your interpretation of the dutch kings apology is fundamentally illogical? How can you take ownership of actions of only n number of generations - where and on what basis do you set the bar and the limit to say that you enjoy the fruits of n generations before you but not that of the (n+1)th generation? If evolution were to be believed, humans ought to do nothing but apologise for the actions of their evolutionary ancestors as well. Would you expect then that the species of homo sapiens collectively apologise for the treatment of the neanderthals? Or would you exercise logic and claim accountability only for your own actions?
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@chubbymoth5810 you conviniently sidestepped the entire question regarding religious discrimination since you dont have an answer to it. I asked whether accountability needs to be atteibuted on present generations for the historically recorded religious discrimination of the past? Evwn if you were an atheist you cannot ignore the historically recorded archeologically proved aspect of religious discrimination in Indian history. How can reparations and accountability be attributed to that history? Do those who ask modern India to own up to the history of the slave trade in the Indian ocean have the spine to say the same of the history of religious discrimination? Or is such a line of thought too politically inconvinient to the narratives that the presenter wushes to push?
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@chubbymoth5810 as for europe - everyone is seeing the effects of european secular state in all its glory in everywhere feom france to sweden. The only one that are truly isolated from the chaos are poland - and we all know why. Again you sidestepped the queation of evaluating caste reparations and religious reparations in a side by side manner - probably because all logically consistent answers are tok inconvinient to the general liberal freethinker narrative and worldview .... try coping harder ....
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