*spends a minute giggling at the icon in current context, especially since it's ...y'know...Snow White*
Agreed.
I actually had a Civil War history teacher in college who apologized to the ancestors of the blacks in the class for what her ancestors did.
There were like three of us, including me, who went, "None of us were alive then. We can't go back and prevent it. You didn't personally do anything directly to us. All the apology is doing is keeping it in the mind of those who want to remember -- and since they want to remember, anything would bring it to mind for them. Let's get on with the class, and consider yourself forgiven."
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Agreed.
I actually had a Civil War history teacher in college who apologized to the ancestors of the blacks in the class for what her ancestors did.
There were like three of us, including me, who went, "None of us were alive then. We can't go back and prevent it. You didn't personally do anything directly to us. All the apology is doing is keeping it in the mind of those who want to remember -- and since they want to remember, anything would bring it to mind for them. Let's get on with the class, and consider yourself forgiven."