selective memory

Submitted by roger smith (United Kingdom), Feb 29, 2012 at 04:04

very good post, jeff. one thing that gets my goat in the UK, is that even on main stream tv, they often show programs exposing islamic fundamentalism - madrassas, mosques etc and whatever hatred is taught therein; and then if these programs are referred to, very often you are met by the usually cries of racist etc. are we supposed to watch for the sake of pumping up the ratings and then to erase from memory everything that was exposed ? memory is being treated like a temporary file on a computer. we must learn from the past , however unpleasantly inconvenient these facts are.

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