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    1 year ago

    If anyone came straight to the comments, I strongly encourage you to read the article right now. You can make your own judgement about what the above commenter is trying to do after reading it.

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      1 year ago

      I probably inferred too much from the post’s title, especially after I had seen previous posts with very similar titles framing Canada as being supportive of Nazis.

      While I don’t agree with OP’s stance of associating people today with people from +70 years ago, people have differing perspectives on things and my opinion is going to be based off of how much I perceive the two things to be relevant. To me, their stance would be like holding a person accountable because their grandparents destroying a building long before they were even born.

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        What if instead of destroying a building the grandparents instead did the holocaust, and the grandchildren put up statues of their grandparents and held parades for them, and invited them into the Canadian Parliament? That sounds worse than your analogy doesn’t it?

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          The grandparents are still being held accountable for what they did, I don’t believe in descendants inheriting crimes, this is where I disagree with OP. Celebrating the grandparents in this example would be the same as celebrating the Holocaust and the people responsible for it.

          I consider society to be “dynamic”; it will change over time, and it makes more sense to make judgements of a general population based off of currently living people and how the newer generations are trending. Basing observations on a generation that is dead/will be dead within the next 15 years does not feel like it can be used to represent the current population. The changes are gradual but when you’re already generalizing large groups of people, it’s easier to break it up by what generation has done/are doing and if they are still around. There is going to be some bleed over between generations, but looking at how the newer generations are changing seems like a better way to see how a population will be changing in the long term.