Torillian on 26 July 2023
Another thing to consider when talking about the silver lining of atrocities is it's pretty important who is talking about it. If a neutral third party tells me this it's different than when someone with a vested interest tells me. If Germany included the silver lining of the Holocaust in their curriculum that hits different than if someone did the same elsewhere. Similarly when an agent of the US government says the shitty slavery thing the US did had some upsides that's different than if they teach that in Switzerland.
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