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R.I.P. Muhammed Ali - Why Do We 'Sanitize' Our Heroes? (Original Post)
thomhartmann
Jun 2016
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merrily
(45,251 posts)1. If I admire a man for living his conviction, is he automatically my hero?
Why can't I admire what I admire about Ali, without expecting perfection from Ali or from any human?
braddy
(3,585 posts)2. No one has mentioned his endorsing Reagan in 1984.
ConsiderThis_2016
(274 posts)3. Muhammad Ali on interracial marriage and couples...
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)4. God damn it Hartmann, would you stop already?! If we didn't sanitize them they would appear just
like us. That might lead us to understand that ordinary people are the ones who really get things done, and we might have to take responsibility instead of pointing fingers. Then we might start asking questions, and who knows where that would lead?
Dammit Thom, we have to be able to justify living in our Lazyboys with shitty cable service while serving as prey for bank$ter/jihadists somehow.
de La Boétie knew what he was talking about.