I wonder if it can be said that those who are ashamed of their history are doomed to repeat it.

Not a wise proposition surely, in an era of wholesale corrections of the past by the PC crowd, and newspeak re-writing history by the "right or wrong" faction centered in DC. I view both these impulses as double plus ungood, myself.

I'm with Nancy Griffith; I believe that altering the past is unworthy and unprofitable.

Of course, you can just stop using those songs or poems or words which you don't want to use. But that's a different proposition altogether.

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