Prosecuting the past is one of the most useless expenditures of energy possible. Instead of pursuing some beneficial or productive avenue we have people today who are organizing and protesting over the actions of people who are literally dead. I think this has to be a unique point in the history of humans where as instead of trying to make some change geared towards bettering things for future generations we have energy being expensed towards just being mad about the past.
When people are just following the rituals then it’s not a protest over actions that happened in the past by people since dead. It’s a protest of the continuing harm being felt by those groups. It’s also a recognition that those problematic self sustaining rituals are sometimes hard to see from the inside.
