It's a debate. I encourage ridiculously long posts! lol I think many people struggle with cognitive dissonance as you so bravely admitted. How do you propose that we help people deal with this emotional barrier so that we can all at least recognize the genocide that took place? After all, until we recognize the violence, we will not be able to then change behaviours so that we can reconcile. So what I hear from you is the suggestion that we deal with these emotional and mental traumas and bias discrimination so that we can come to terms with the harms throughout history, change our ways, end the violence so that we can then approach them in peace for meaningful reconciliation efforts.

If this is what you are saying, how do you propose that this process take place with a population of millions?