You don’t protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracy - Salon.com
by David Masciotra
"Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as “heroes.” The rhetorical sloppiness and intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, but it also makes honest and serious conversations necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of a fragile democracy nearly impossible."
For a denunciation of Masciotra as a wimp, snob, Liberal see You Don't Protect Me by John Lilyea at This Ain't Hell.
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by David Masciotra
"Put a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as “heroes.” The rhetorical sloppiness and intellectual shallowness of affixing such a reverent label to everyone in the military or law enforcement betrays a frightening cultural streak of nationalism, chauvinism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism, but it also makes honest and serious conversations necessary for the maintenance and enhancement of a fragile democracy nearly impossible."
For a denunciation of Masciotra as a wimp, snob, Liberal see You Don't Protect Me by John Lilyea at This Ain't Hell.
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