Word: amnesiaize
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...AMATO Overconfident staff didn't depose H.R.C. law associate before his amnesia-prone committee appearance...
...this plaque, perhaps more than any other single issue, that persuaded me of the value of a commemoration of the Confederate dead. It had nothing to do with the righteousness of their cause, or with a form of moral amnesia, as The Crimson suggests, and everything to do with the hope that after nearly a century and a half the University could reconcile at least in memory, its dead sons as a sign of the abiding fellowship of memory and of hope to which the University aspires. Never was it to be a patch-up job over fundamental differences...
...recent Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) ad hoc committee proposal recommending a Civil War memorial including the names of Confederate soldiers disturbs us on both philosophical and practical counts. We believe that the idea of memorializing Confederate soldiers represents a troubling historical amnesia. The proposal was tabled by the Board of Overseers, but we remain concerned about the manner in which the HAA committee considered this issue...
Thinking vaguely of the Civil War as some distant, tragic conflict is dangerous. But if we strip away scales of historical amnesia and remember that the Civil War was a struggle between competing moral conceptions, one good and one evil, we must oppose any memorial which includes Confederate names...
Selective amnesia is certainly the most mature and healthy approach. I also applaud his perceptive observation: "ethnic groups tend to have a myopic view of history, remembering their own history and nothing else." The pedestrian observer might peruse a typical high school history book and conclude that all types of students, ethnic or otherwise, must learn their share of mainstream US history...