Re: Shutting up the Table Coach
Hi jedi,
I'm with you. My friend was born and has lived in Germany all of her life. She was listening to the speech when it happened. She remembers her contemporaneous reaction. The argument that she, and your high school math teacher, had their memories redrawn by a 1988 Newsweek article is so patently absurd as to be laughable.
Of course, lately, it seems that all academic discourse begins with the premise that eyewitness testimony is inherently unreliable, thus allowing people who were not witnesses to the events in question to assert a greater knowledge of what happened than those who were. It's the ultimate triumph of theory/ideology over experience.
Cris
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