In Praise of Forgetting by David Rieff

Author:David Rieff
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780300182798
Publisher: Yale University Press

1. The success of Al-Jazeera has not changed the basic terms of reference, the emblem of this being the fact that the network, in order to appear global and not “Arab” or “Third World,” has hired a disproportionate number of veterans of major Western television channels as presenters on their English-language news shows.

2. Tzvetan Todorov has pointed out, though, that there is a rich irony in Hitler’s speaking of “everyone” having forgotten an event he was himself recalling. Todorov cites a similar phrase of Stalin’s about Peter the Great’s murder of the Boyars.

3. The loi Gayssot is named for the Communist deputy Jean-Claude Gayssot, the loi Taubira for the Socialist deputy Christiane Taubira, who would later become minister of justice during François Hollande’s presidency.

4. As opposed to their collective responsibility, for which a strong case can indeed be made.

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