Comments by "Jason Dashney" (@jasondashney) on "A Day In History" channel.

Our selective outrage in the west is insane. We also call our leaders "dictators" and other nonsense words. Those people need to travel.
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I'm a 46 yr old Canadian and when I was young we were taught about this. I don't remember exactly how but if you say Killing Fields to anyone about my age they'll at least know it was a crazy SE Asian atrocity. It'll be familiar to them. It's INSANE that so many young people in the West are drawn to communism and authoritarianism and are not taught about all of this stuff except under the guise "It wasn't real communism". Every place it's ever been trying has ended up in absolute disaster. Yeah, these people are convinced that they will do it right, and the sheer arrogance of them to ignore the people that went through what they did. University students at Ivy League schools think they know better than immigrants who fled the worst nightmares you can imagine.
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Very few people that did that are alive today. It's fine to not forgive the actual individuals directly involved, but that's where it has to end. Making people responsible for the sins of the father is what causes so much of the conflict around the world.
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@sheldonwheaton881 so are the timelines. This video jumps around and can be hard to follow.
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Of course I've known about slavery all my life, but for some reason the part about handing over the firstborn son if you marry a free person caught me off guard. I didn't know you could use a baby as a transaction like that. Yikes.
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10:50 What are the rights that black people in America still don't have? I thought everybody was equal under the law there.
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If you clean your whole house top to bottom, can I find a couple dust bunnies and claim your whole house is still dirty?
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They were able to do it BECAUSE it was on such a large scale. Your commanding officer is OK with it and then one guy in your group goes along with it and then another and another. Some people can justify literally anything if they see others do it before them. If it was a one off here and there, it's not likely to spread. That's the cruel irony of the human condition. I wonder how many of the Japanese soldiers went home after the war and later on had PTSD after it fully sunk in what they had done. People do a lot of dumb things when they are 20 years old that they're deeply ashamed of at 30. This would put that on an unimaginable level, and that would be even worse once you get married, and have a daughter of your own. I don't think anybody won in that situation in the very least.
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"And now it's looking like it might happen again to another generation around the world." You were under the impression that human nature changed in the last several decades? Smaller scale atrocities have been going on this whole time. Make no mistake about it, it will happen again. It's just a matter of time.
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We may as well just throw the language out completely if we're going with that then. Why not pronounce it jibber-ty-nah-jah? Makes about as much sense. I'm curious as to where that pronunciation came from and how it stuck around in English.
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@lydiamichaels1976 I think it's absolutely absurd that people change language in ways that don't conform to any basic tenants whatsoever. There's no type of sounding out of that word that's even remotely possible given any variation of how those letters are supposed to sound in English. My mommy and my daddy sharing 50% DNA have nothing to do with the logic of what I'm saying. That pronunciation literally makes no sense as a word.
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Good point. Mechanization is a good thing.
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@thunderstreet78 No worries. I HATE our PM with the fire of 1000 suns and I truly believe he would be a dictator if he could be. I think he's an actual narcissist psychopath, but he's not a dictator because our system isn't set up for that. We have checks and balances that mean I can tell him to his face he's a POS and nothing bad will happen to me. I can say it and hand him my business card and nothing will happen to me other than perhaps and audit.
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khaliilbinammar4700 I agree with you but not everything that happens in society necessarily has to be enshrined in legislation. Please remember though, your argument goes both ways.
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You can't corrupt anyone to that degree. 1-3% of people are psychopaths. Give them free reign to live out their worst fantasies, and you have easily enough people. Couple that with arming 15 and 16-year-old who don't really understand the consequences of what they are doing and you've got the recipe for total domination.
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