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What was the source of Goldhagen's unprofessional fit? His piece in The New Republic had such disregard for his University's motto that he may just have been seeking to immunize his upcoming book from any eyewitness evidence that what we must learn from the Holocaust isn't that all Jews are good and all Germans...
...condemned China's government for supporting military action against students in Tiananmen Square. In 1997, a mayor who has made the police department the private army of city hall with no accountability to the citizens of New York City remains popular among his constituents. They have conveniently chosen to disregard the lack of action against the police, even as three unarmed black men were killed between June 13 and July...
...United States has no moral integrity. For over 200 years it has inculcated its citizens with lies and pipe dreams about a nation of "immigrants." It tends to disregard the millions of Africans brought as cargo, the millions of Native Americans who had occupied the land for centuries before the first European arrived and the millions of Latinos whose forbears slept one night and woke up the next day as a people oppressed by the United States...
There are those who condemn the shameless disregard for our national holidays. Memorial Day, after all, should be a time to honor and reflect. Instead, it has become synonymous with hot dogs, hamburgers and lighter fluid. But condemnation only polarizes and inflames while leaving the underlying problem unaddressed. The plain truth remains that for many Americans, several of our national holidays have become irrelevant. In the spirit of maintaining a vital and meaningful civic culture, maybe it's time we made some changes. Here are some suggestions...
...still care so much? Clearly it would not have been a big story if Parcells was leaving the Patriots for a job with NBC, or to go into retirement. But this switching of sides, this apparent disregard for the sacred boundaries of sport, strikes at the heart of the public's cherished misconceptions about professional sports...