“This nation does not have what could be called “clean hands” as far as things go with the people that were already living here when a lot of our ancestors showed up.”
Nobody does. Besides, it’s a fallacy to think that one must have “clean hands” before you can speak up about the wrong doings of others. That’s the road to moral equivalency and eventually, no moral standards at all.
Moral equivalency and no moral standards at all?!?!? WTF are you babbling about with that? The topic of this article concerns genocide. So, in your world, the genocide that we committed on the indigenous people of this continent over 300 years is somehow morally superior to the genocide the Turks committed on their Armenian population for two years during a war?
Genocide is genocide sir, and the perpetrators of genocide seem really reluctant to acknowledge that they did it. The first step in honestly dealing with something is acknowledging its existence. The Turks seem really reluctant to do that and a lot of people in this nation seem pretty reluctant to also. I guess there is your moral equivalency...