• spauldo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    GWB publicly condoning torture.

    I grew up during the tail end of the cold war. Torture was something the Soviets did. We were better than that.

    And sure, I knew the CIA did stuff like that under the table, but it was never OK.

    It’s what got me interested in politics, and why I feel that we shouldn’t try to hide the bad things we’ve done when we teach history. Knowing what we’re capable of is necessary to keep ourselves from repeating the mistakes of the past.

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      1 year ago

      we ‘shouldn’t’ try to hide the bad things we’ve done when we teach history

      The keyword here is shouldn’t. Most people don’t do lots of things they should.

      Not out of malice but simply laziness, it is a lot easier to just default to the norm and go on. Try comparing what should get done in politics(campaign promises) to what actually gets done in washington. In short what should happen and what actually happens are two different things in a lot of areas.