Then why even bother having the conversation? No one is free of guilt here, which was my point.

Guilt is not a binary.

When one group is actively trying to absolve its sins of the past, and the other doesn’t even recognize them while doubling-down, the claim that “everyone has sins” an abdication of the idea that behavior matters.

Because you can't resurrect people who died hundreds of years ago but you can potentially stop a genocide that's ongoing.