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Misdeeds of the British aristocracy. Leave my grandparents out of this.

IF you ever meet a Englishman from nobility, know that he is culpable to blame for all of this.

Common folk everywhere have more in common with each other than they have with people in power. The problem is that they are constantly fooled into believing otherwise. This is why our grandparents shouldn't be left out of this. All too often children are taught blind devotion to one's country, when in reality this means blind devotion to the leaders.

Things have gotten better though. We have elections and the internet. We can more openly sympathize and empathize and learn and hopefully this will make us all better together.

Huh so my great-grandparents that were farming in the middle of the country side are to blame for this? They didn't even receive newspapers.

The only way they could have protested the government back then was refusing to pay taxes. And that would have gotten them killed.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/e/edmundburk377528...

> IF you ever meet a Englishman from nobility, know that he is culpable to blame for all of this.

So you believe in inherited guilt? I reject that idea. None of us is responsible for the actions of our ancestors.

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