re: #377 Feline Fearless Leader

I don’t really understand the mindset that seems to depend on refusing to admit that our country treated certain groups like crap in the past — maybe because then we shouldn’t treat them like crap in the present?

It’s because most nations, and most of the people in those nations, do not have have history. They have mythology. That mythology is, “Ours is the greatest thing evah! We’ve done nothing but good things!”

So they hate history because it interferes with the mythology.