expression is undoubtedly a useful one, there may be other ways to help shape it. Perhaps the most effective is honesty in teaching history about ourselves, not as nations but as humanity. The process of education is long and complex, the results not always obvious. It demands that everybody recognize that official policies have justified one people’s persecution or the extirpation of another. The justifications range from clan to race to religion and beyond. Lewy’s intractable question demands our attention precisely because the answer goes beyond freedom of expression, fear of closing off academic debate, or the choice of language to describe brutality. We must reach beyond the language of 1944 with the birth of the “international crime” of “genocide” to recognize the larger record of humanity. Unless every nation, every school system, every population will acknowledge our weaknesses; unless we as professionals guide and instruct in the spirit of honesty about our collective past; then denial will live among us. Only a well-informed-majority can silence a movement to deny the reality of others’ suffering.

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国际上对非洲大规模暴行的应对：保护，起诉和缓和库尔特米尔斯的责任

毫无疑问，表达是一种有用的表达，也许还有其他方法可以帮助塑造它。也许最有效的方法是诚实地传授关于自己的历史，而不是作为国家，而是作为人类。教育过程漫长而复杂，结果并不总是显而易见的。它要求每个人都承认官方政策证明了一个人的迫害或灭绝另一个人的正当性。理由从宗族到种族再到宗教等等。Lewy棘手的问题之所以引起我们的注意，恰恰是因为答案超出了言论自由，担心无法进行学术辩论或选择描述残酷的语言。随着“种族灭绝”的“国际罪行”的诞生，我们必须超越1944年的语言，以承认更大范围的人类记录。除非每个国家，每个学校系统，每个人都会承认我们的弱点；除非我们作为专业人员以诚实的精神指导和指导我们的集体过去；那么否认就会活在我们中间。只有大多数人能充分了解情况，才能使运动否认其他人遭受苦难的现实。