Reaction to Upsetting History?

[crazy canuck]

Remind me, who thought it would be a good idea to hold the Winter games in Sochi?

[Viking]

Remind me, who thought it would be a good idea to hold the Winter games in Sochi?

The same brain trust that decided to play the soccer world cup in Quatar in the summer.

[Lettow77]

 Reading about history was extremely affecting to me growing up. Eventually I just began avoiding all history related to the South's failed war as something that made me more worked up than was healthy. I tend to get extremely partisan when reading history, taking a side and celebrating their advances and lamenting their defeats.

The human suffering can be very upsetting, assuming it is possible to identify with the parties involved. It is hard to put a face to say, the Persian sufferers of Mongol brutality, although logically I still find the actions of the Mongols deplorable.

In general how I cope with my reactions is avoidance, tea, or poetry.

[Capetan Mihali]

I tend to get extremely partisan when reading history, taking a side and celebrating their advances and lamenting their defeats.

Really?   

[Ed Anger]

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[Duque de Bragança]

*shrug* Islam is Islam.

There are no inferior religions or cultures.

Claude Guéant, French Interior minister, agrees with you

[Drakken]

*shrug* Islam is Islam.

There are no inferior religions or cultures.

Claude Guéant, French Interior minister, agrees with you

By that quote, France is an inferior culture as it de facto accepts all four of them. 

[Tonitrus]

Remind me, who thought it would be a good idea to hold the Winter games in Sochi?

The people who were bribed by the Russians.

Heck, the IOC is probably one of the most corrupt organizations in the world.

[Viking]

*shrug* Islam is Islam.

There are no inferior religions or cultures.

Claude Guéant, French Interior minister, agrees with you

while thanking translate.google.com; I must say I don't agree with him. They don't seem superior, they are superior.

[Camerus]

I'm embarrassingly easily moved by individual stories, including (or even especially) fiction.  I find historical tales of large-scale suffering more easy to shrug off emotionally, likely due to the paradoxical phenomenon Uncle Joe pointed out.  :gulag:

[Duque de Bragança]

while thanking translate.google.com; I must say I don't agree with him. They don't seem superior, they are superior.

Slight rephrasing in that picture. The original text was: "Toutes les civilisations ne se valent pas" i.e all civilizations are not equal (in value/worth).

Original statement:

Contrairement à ce que dit l'idéologie relativiste de gauche, pour nous, toutes les civilisations ne se valent pas. Celles qui défendent l'humanité nous paraissent plus avancées que celles qui la nient. Celles qui défendent la liberté, l'égalité et la fraternité nous paraissent supérieures à celles qui acceptent la tyrannie, la minorité des femmes, la haine sociale ou ethnique."

Translation

"Contrary to the leftwing relativist ideology, for us, not all civilisations are equal. Those who defend humanity seem more advanced to us than those who deny it. Those who defend freedom, equality and brotherhood seem to us superior to those that accept tyranny, subjugation of women and social or ethnic hatred."

[jimmy olsen]

"Contrary to the leftwing relativist ideology, for us, not all civilisations are equal. Those who defend humanity seem more advanced to us than those who deny it. Those who defend freedom, equality and brotherhood seem to us superior to those that accept tyranny, subjugation of women and social or ethnic hatred."