Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Broken Moral Compass

American Thinker ^ | November 18, 2021 | Dale A. Fitzgibbons

[artichokegrower]

Career race-baiter and cynical iconoclast Nikole Hannah-Jones was recently back in the news. She is the fabulist inventor of the “1619 Project”—a creative retelling of history effectively reducing this nation, its founders, and its people to little more than unprincipled sponsors of slavery, racism, and other moral failures

[artichokegrower]

It was on her recent visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum in Japan that she slathered on another generous dollop of shame. “Feeling ashamed of shameful things is not BAD. It’s called being an empathetic and moral human being,” she, tweeted. “Shame helps us do better. When I visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum about the impact of the US’s atomic bomb, as an American, I felt shame.”

Since she is in Asia she should make a stop in Nanking and educate herself on what the Japanese government was up to at that time. Also she should visit Okinawa and learn what an invasion of Japan would entail.

[rktman]

Uh, how does one break something they don’t have to begin with?

[Boogieman]

“Hannah-Jones added that the “desire for so many Americans to be free of collective shame, collective atonement and collective responsibility for the shameful legacy of centuries of slavery, racism, apartheid & terroristic violence visited upon fellow citizens is the sign of an immature & selfish culture.””

She’s just trying to clothe communism in religious terms. There’s no such thing as “collective atonement”. We are all individually responsible for our sins, and only our sins, and we can’t atone for anyone else’s. Really, we can’t even atone for our own. We need Jesus to help with that.

[VanShuyten]

I feel no personal shame over history and the messy morals of the past. I do think history offers wonderful moral lessons that can help me personally make decisions and judgments about the actions of people of the present. For example, submitting to totalitarians always ends in massive death and destruction.

[Renkluaf]

You have to have a moral compass before it can be broken.

[sauropod]

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[rxh4n1]

She should visit Manila. We were the Liberators.