Are they afraid of reparations or something? I don't understand. Like, Canada apologized to the native americans and it wasn't an expensive or embarassing process. I won't say native folks were made whole from the process, but it was a formal acknowledgement. Any idea what the resistance is?

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Like, Canada apologized to the native americans and it wasn't an expensive or embarassing process.

That's precisely the point. Apologizing is cheap, actually working with Indigenous communities, upholding their sovereignty to their ancestral lands, actively helping them heal from the multi generation wide effects of what they were forced to go through, listening to them and acting on their feedback, and actually giving them rights in general is expensive, which is why we haven't done that. We basically said "sorry aboot that genocide eh?" And unilaterally declared the Indigenous rights issue solved.

[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I hope you didn't get the wrong impression of how I view Truth and Reconciliation. All I'm saying is that the government acknowledged some of their crimes.

The Japanese state, won't even do that for the Koreans.