Erm, We’re Sorry Our Ancestors Ate You…
This doesn’t really make any sense:
The four Fijian missionaries were on a proselytising mission on the island of New Britain when they were massacred by Tolai tribesmen in 1878.
They were murdered on the orders of a local warrior chief, Taleli, and were then cooked and eaten…
Thousands of villagers attended a reconciliation ceremony near Rabaul, the capital of East New Britain province, once notorious for the ferocity of its cannibals.
Their leaders apologised for their forefather’s taste for human flesh to Fiji’s high commissioner to Papua New Guinea. (The Telegraph)
Why are they apologising? What is the point? Those who were eaten and those who ate are long dead. This happened nearly 130 years ago, for crying out loud! Like with the calls for apologies for slavery and the slave trade, it is utterly pointless. Absolutely everyone who was connected with it is dead.
This apparent need for people to apologise for the actions of their ancestors is becoming really absurd. Things that happened so long ago that no-one involved is alive are seriously old news, and should just be left alone, otherwise everyone in the world would be apologising to everyone else for something that one of their ancestors did back in the mists of time.
You can’t apologise for something you didn’t do. It is just an empty gesture! How can you apologise for something that you (a) didn’t do, and (b) weren’t alive to do anything about anyway? The next step along this line would be for children born of rape to apologise to their mother for their father’s actions! Don’t tell me that’s not absurd.
Source: The Telegraph
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