Quote Originally Posted by LA Ute View Post
I think you’re throwing out the baby with a tiny bit of bath water. Shapiro’s hard to take sometimes but the “arsonist” bit was just a figure of speech. The parts I quoted were his good points. For example:



What’s to disagree with there?

The J.J. McCullough piece you link closed with this:



I liked the piece, which I found thought-provoking, but I think the above is a silly bit of reductive thinking. Awful, IMO. I’m not a teacher but if he were a student in my composition class I’d give him an F and make him re-write his piece.
I guess I should read both articles, and maybe I'll get around to it, but my gut response is that while self-flagellation is harmful, and we need to remember all of the good, you at least have to acknowledge all of those negatives and understand how they may affect our current thinking. Too many people won't even acknowledge those dark parts of the past, and consider you unpatriotic if you do.