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Ralph J Hodosh's avatar

Churchill and Roosevelt were not infallible, but they did think and act globally. With all our access to instant information, have we lost our ability to see the bigger picture and act beyond immediate tribal concerns?

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Irwin Singer's avatar

Thank you for the reminder that, under far more ‘seriously difficult’ times, FDR and the U.S. were able to see the value of individuals beyond tribalism. Could that era have been an outlier? Or maybe we aren’t living in ‘seriously difficult’ times, which permits us to fall into such petty squabbles based on identity politics. Wokeness’s basic tenet is that individuals and groups are judged on inherited identities, e.g., where we were born, our skin color and our sex. So, no, not everyone is willing to agree that “There can be no collective guilt by virtue of wrongful birth.”

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