Originally Posted by
Steve Blair
As I mentioned earlier, one reason they CAN get away with this is the largely American reflex to immediately look at ourselves and see what we did wrong. We have been doing this for many years, and you can even see signs of it during the 1800s. It is, I believe, an admirable national trait, but it can (and has been) carried to extremes. One reason (in my opinion, your mileage may vary) that the PC movement has been so successful in the US is this very masochistic reflex on our part to assume blame and/or responsibility for things that do not go as planned.
In order to deal with the situation we are in, we MUST be more aggressive in the media, to include holding others accountable for their actions. Will this happen? Who knows.
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