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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
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Interesting Twitter quote from that article:
https://twitter.com/MaximeBernier/st...22397581094913
Maxime Bernier
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Why not celebrate instead the heritage and renewal of aboriginal cultures? That would unite us in positive way. Cult of victimhood and obsession with past wrongs instead of focus on the progress made and to come are another sick characteristic of extreme PC and multiculturalism."
Bolding for emphasis is mine as it is the
only part of the tweet I am referring to and thus anyone wanting to debate the latter part can go find someone else to play with.
I don't particularly find a lot of common ground with the CPC, but I gotta say, in this moment he's kinda talking sense here. Am I out of line in thinking that the right way to frame this holiday is to celebrate them and their culture instead of a yearly reminder of "Hey, remember when we used to royally screw you all, yeah sorry 'bout that"?
I think an apology should be a one time thing, and after that you make sure you don't do the thing for which the first apology was needed.
- If the wronged party accepts the apology, great, we move on and try to make things better.
- If they don't, well, you don't have any control over that, the best you can do is carry on continuing to avoid doing the thing that was apologized for, and try to otherwise co-exist in a pleasant and positive manner.
I think continuing to apologize just re-opens the wound to the wronged party, and I have no idea what purpose it serves to the person(s) apologizing other than some self-serving notion of "well, I apologized so morally I'm in the clear".