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It's a blindness at odds
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with the full measure of responsibility which sometimes,
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he says, involves collective responsibility
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or responsibilities that may flow from historic memories.
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And he gives some examples.
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Such individualism is expressed by those contemporary Americans
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who deny any responsibility
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for the effects of slavery upon black Americans saying
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"I never owned any slaves."
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Or the young German who believes
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that having been born after 1945 means
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that what Nazis did to Jews has no moral relevance