There's a straightforward rebuttal to about 90% of the horrible arguments (which is at least half of the comments - seriously, hacker news?!) in this thread.
1. Did [other country that was also previously somebody else's] finish their genocide?
2. Would you prefer that Canada and the United States did?
I know your answer to the second one because I know humans are, eventually, (once they stop pretending that they live in a statistics textbook) usually not assholes. So to the whataboutism, I simply ask: understanding that this is not history, but the present, what the fuck do you think you're advocating?
1. Did [other country that was also previously somebody else's] finish their genocide?
2. Would you prefer that Canada and the United States did?
I know your answer to the second one because I know humans are, eventually, (once they stop pretending that they live in a statistics textbook) usually not assholes. So to the whataboutism, I simply ask: understanding that this is not history, but the present, what the fuck do you think you're advocating?
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