The attacks on John A. MacDonald and Christopher Columbus and what they represent—the arrival of the British and Europeans—are surface examples of a now-familiar trend: the claim of victimhood due to a real or assumed historical wrong.
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The point of the numerous mea culpas is to morally preen and take issue with the dead who cannot argue back.
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The Cain and Abel story may be the first in the Western canon where the temptation to burrow in self-pity appears, where a man who spills blood thinks himself the victim.
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