Ali Dadpay
- Role
- Economist writing from his public X account
- Statement date
"After all, there should be no collective punishment. But that does not mean there should be collective amnesia."
Source and context
Original post
About this source
Original essay responding to Tahmasebi. Dadpay explicitly rejects inherited guilt and defends due process while arguing that Iranian history and other victims belong in the account. His historical and numerical allegations are not adopted as DI findings.
Before the quotation
Dadpay responded to Tahmasebi’s first-person essay and related the dispute to his own family’s history.
After the quotation
He explicitly rejects punishing children for parents’ actions. His criticism of the portrayal must not be classified as approval of detention; other historical allegations in the essay are not adopted as facts.
How this statement is classified
The statement combines an explicit qualification with a competing concern; reducing it to unconditional support or opposition would misrepresent its context.
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- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi
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