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Why does acknowledging race related attrocities get your question deleted?

I asked a question relating to colonial Spanish treatment of Natives vs Africans and people lashed out on me. Apparently I'm racist for acknowledging that this stuff happened. Is censoring history really a good idea?

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago
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    There's defiantly some weird rules about it. Like it's safe to say African Arabs conquered the Hispani but any time I mention what the Roman Latini did to the Britons someone reports my answer.

    But I'm sure you mean race by skin color, not any of the other historic definitions of race.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Because the question violates the guidelines? If you wanted a real answer, why didn't you QUOTE it, VERBATIM, in the details-box?

    "relating to" almost never is the problem

  • Cogito
    Lv 7
    2 years ago

    No-one is censoring history - but equally, blaming people NOW for what their ancestors may or may not have done is pointless and judgemental.

    A distant great x ? uncle of mine owned a slave ship in the UK. That wasn't MY fault, I had nothing to do with it and there's no way I would apologise for it.

    But some people keep blaming others for their country's past.

    It's irrational and non-productive.

  • 2 years ago

    Leftists want to shut down reasonable conversation. They are scumbags

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