We have learned to give them exactly the same proportion of attention that teachers and writers often give them in the most respectable classrooms and textbooks. One reason these atrocities are still with us is that we have learned to bury them in a mass of other facts, as radioactive wastes are buried in containers in the earth. But the easy acceptance of atrocities as a deplorable but necessary price to pay for progress (Hiroshima and Vietnam, to save Western civilization Kronstadt and Hungary, to save socialism nuclear proliferation, to save us all) - that is still with us. It is too late for that it would be a useless scholarly exercise in morality. “My point is not that we must, in telling history, accuse, judge, condemn Columbus in absentia.
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