As a South African, there could’ve been at least some punishment for some people. Basically everyone was forgiven, and presented with the opportunity to learn lessons by themselves and evolve. And 32 years later, Afrikaner farmers are trying to convince Trump that there’s a white genocide and that they’re all precious little victims.
I know that conservatives have a hard time learning anything and doing any evolving (if they could they wouldn’t be conservative) but maybe it would’ve helped if at least some examples were made. Because ‘love and light’ and ‘forgive and forget’ didn’t work.
kablez@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Oh yeah I’m 100% for consequences and proportionate punishment for people who hurt others, especially those who commit genocide.
Part of the conservative counter culture is to not only minimalise and invalidate accounts of wrong doing, but to confuse the situation so much that consequences can never reach the offenders. That’s why I think it’s important to specifically de-couple nationality from accusations of wrong doing.
It’ll be the same in a few years when the equivalent of Nuremberg happens for American fascists. We should not assume everyone in the United States was a MAGA, but there must be consequences for that group and they must fit the [international] crime.