There’s Nothing Stopping You Now: Coleman Hughes on Race and Poverty in America | GoodFellows: John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson, H. R. McMaster | Hoover Institution
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The Importance of Understanding the History of Slavery
The reason this has gone so viral is because America and Western Europeans in some way are more willing than most people to atone for the sins of their ancestors. This is not really a normal tendency worldwide. Americans and Western Europeans, to some extent feel a unique level of guilt. I think that that comes from a really really well meaning urge and as a result, there's an opening for Bad faith actors to poke that guilt and just never let up.
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