Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "" video.

And the best way to do that is to make sure people know that no ethnic group is born with a unique genetic predisposition to evil and that just because a group is rich and powerful doesn't mean they have "privilege" that needs to be corrected.
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We spend half our history class talking about slavery. We don't talk about "the after effects" because that's all theoretical sociological bullshit. No one in Germany thinks the Holocaust had "after effects" that extend to this day.
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Unfortunately, no good deed goes unpunished. Germany is no a self-hating nation with their society on the brink of collapse.
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Wow, that is disingenuous. I don't think anyone who upvoted you even thinks what you said mirrored their experiences in school, they just like it because it "sounds right" in a society they are told is full of white privilege.
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But only teaching about horrors in one country doesn't help with that at all. The West today is sorely lacking in perspective, and that's why we hate ourselves.
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But teaching "our people are uniquely predisposed to evil" is not the way to go about that. In the US, for example, talking about racism and Jim Crow has only led to more of the same tribalism from minorities that white people exhibited during this era. We're more in danger of repeating the past than ever.
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@monny287 Less than 1% of Saddam Hussein's arms came from the US. France, Russia, and China were his three biggest sellers (by no coincidence all the nations on the UN Security Council which vetoed US military action). What does "treating the Middle East like crap" even mean? When we give pocket change to dictators like Saddam, you say we are being an evil empire ruling the world with an iron fist. When we topple dictators like Saddam, you say that democracy is just an arbitrary Western choice of life style and Arabs love their tyrants. Which is it?
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@Herkan97 Not true. We read "Slaughterhouse Five" in my English class in High School, which centered around Dresden. I'm also well aware of the Treaty Of Versailles, and the horrific poverty it forced Germany into. What I've never understood is how this treaty, imposed on them by Gentiles, led to a hatred of the Jews.
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Right because you're 72.
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That is disingenuous horseshit. Not only do we teach about Vietnam, we are so keen on self-flagellation we actually use a picture of a girl who's back was burned off my South Vietnamese napalm to vilify America. I'm betting almost everyone who upvoted you isn't even American, and those who are are ignoring their own personal experiences.
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@inebriatedfowl3197 The people of Grenada have a national holiday celebrating America's "invasion" of their country, on October 25th. No one thinks America is always right, but you're proof there are plenty of people who think America is always wrong.
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@MagicStyleAtelier Your country is not your birth place. It's the place you live, the place whose laws you agree to obey, the place who system you contribute to monetarily, the place you help shape through your vote. If your going to fund something and shape it, what's wrong with being proud of it?
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You know it was the US who decided to stop buying oil from Iraq in the first place? If the US was only interested in oil we would have stayed friends with Saddam and never needed to invade because there would be no sanctions on Iraq in the first place.
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The worst way to prevent a historical atrocity from happening again is to teach that the group who committed it are people with a unique predisposition to evil. If we really wanted to prevent another Holocaust, we'd teach that human nature is easily prone to savagery and people from all parts of the world have committed atrocities. This is the polar opposite of what liberals want us to believe.
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@LoisAGrimm Would it kill you to exercise a smidgen of intellectual honesty?
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