• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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    7 个月前

    Exactly, look at how well things went after our first civil war when we reintegrated the confederate traitors. Didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot for the next couple hundred years at all with that one.

    Okay, bad example. There’s probably a good one somewhere though.

    • ORbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 个月前

      What do you propose? Turn them away? Alienate them? Refuse to help? We can come up with a million reasons why we shouldn’t be open. But if someone is truly contrite, shouldn’t they have a chance?

      • turdburglar@piefed.social
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        7 个月前

        sure. a chance to make a new life for themselves in another country. what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

    • Windex007@lemmy.world
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      7 个月前

      I think one of the most telling things about the quality of a man is what they dream of when there is a boot on thier neck. Some dream of abolishing boots, others dream of being the righteous applicator of the boot.

    • humanamerican@lemmy.zip
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      7 个月前

      The issue wasn’t that the North made amends with the repentant people of the South. The issue was that the North welcomed the unrepentant back into the fold without any real consequences, and even let them hold positions of power.

      People who genuinely leave behind their horrible worldview deserve a chance at redemption.