My hypothesis was that both the descendants of the victims and the oppressors would have been impacted by the injustices of the past, and I sought to explore the psychological legacies of historical injustice on both groups.
Some argued that this was a case of moral equivalency, as if simply studying the psychological impact on both descendant groups was somehow implying that the suffering of the victims was equivalent to the actions of the oppressors. I had to spend time explaining that this was not the assumption of the study.
What I encountered was not just resistance to the content but to the very idea of exploring it scientifically. This experience mirrors a broader problem in today's society, especially in academic settings, where certain topics are increasingly seen as off-limits or too emotionally charged for discussion.
However, science has a long history of exploring ideas that were initially seen as taboo. Pe
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