>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.