(Native Americans and Nozick) (Was RE: [lbo-talk] Germans should stop feeling Holocaust guilt:

[Dennis Claxton]

Justin wrote:



>My vehemently anti-racist 16 year old daughter is not morally 
>equivalent to General Sheridan, even if she benefits
>from his crimes.  That sort of talk is politically counterproductive 
>too, because it just gets people's
>back up and alienates possible allies.


I agree with this.  But this got started when Doug said:



>It'd be nice if the U.S. went through a few guilt rituals for slavery
>and Indian genocide.


I also agree with that.  A grand scale acknowledgement of wrongdoing, 
which is not the same as "collective guilt", might do us a world of good.