Dear Editor,
I feel that we as Americans try to place too much emphasis on being “politically correct.”
Learning from our mistakes is what gives us wisdom, not hiding or overlooking the truth.
Wisdom is being able to know what is right over what is wrong and what is bad over what is good.
History is much like making mistakes and gaining wisdom.
If we overlook or change history to be politically correct, we have a great chance of making the same mistakes over and over again, thus not gaining wisdom.
The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson is said to be anti-Semitic, and to believe this would be politically correct.
Mel Gibson has said that he does not blame the Jewish culture because he feels we all put Jesus on the cross.
The same is true if you said that All Quiet on the Western Front directed by Delbert Mann and Lewis Milestone, is an anti-American movie because that, too, would be politically correct.
This movie simply tries to portray the horrible acts of war, not pass blame.
Passing the blame just because one race or group does not want to admit to any wrongdoing leaves the door wide open for the same mistake to be made again. History is no place to be politically correct.
When movies try to be politically correct, the future of America may never know what true history was or is.
Cynthia Anest

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