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I'm not sure that a government can meaningfully apologize for anything when all the actual participants are dead, including (but especially) the victim.

It's the half-assed, social justice warrior version of a government agreeing that things done in the past are awful. Why stop with Turing? 30,000 years ago one of your ancestors murdered a woman's children, held her captive, and raped her repeatedly. Why not apologize for that? Or for some Babylonian genocide that's 5000 years old?

It's fucking pointless.



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