• TaterTurnipTulip@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why do you say that? I know she accomplished a lot, but I’m tired of retroactively heaping praise on people when we can often learn from their failings. We can acknowledge what she did while still using her failings to hopefully learn a lesson.

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      1 year ago

      Who heaps praise? I just see negatively shaped comments defining a person’s life work. That’s close to speaking ill of the dead.

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        1 year ago

        Who heaps praise?

        Uh, you? This comment chain literally started with you saying “remember all the good she did, forget all the bad shit”. No, we can remember the good she did, but we MUST remember the harm she caused, lest we let it keep happening.

        That’s close to speaking ill of the dead.

        So what? The dead don’t hear and they have no feelings, I don’t think they’re too bothered really. There’s no such thing as karma, either; Billionaires and politicians wouldn’t die of old age if there was.