>>7161886Which it did. I don't see how that's a serious issue or how it takes away from the german contributions to civilisation.
Besides, we aren't American Liberals. Feeling guilt over what your ancestors did is just as retarded as being proud for it considering you didn't do it yourself.
You must recognise that it happened, and you can evaluate it but that's that. You can only legitimately be proud or guilty of your own acts.
To put it differently, a German has no right to be proud for Kant just because he -out of luck- was born in the same general viscinity. The german or american or greek or french that has read and understood kant can be proud of that.
Similarly, -assuming it true that it happened- a modern German feeling bad for the holocaust is paradoxical. A German or a French etc who supports the idea of a holocaust is guilty of that.
