Nir Rosen screws up, bigtime
You may have noticed that friend-of-the-blog Nir Rosen screwed up bigtime with his dumbass comments about Lara Logan. Stupid, insensitive, inane, wrong-headed. Yup. My feeling in this situation is to hate the sin, not the sinner. I mean, a lot of my friends are dumbasses, and I’ve been there myself. But a little voice in ...
You may have noticed that friend-of-the-blog Nir Rosen screwed up bigtime with his dumbass comments about Lara Logan.
You may have noticed that friend-of-the-blog Nir Rosen screwed up bigtime with his dumbass comments about Lara Logan.
Stupid, insensitive, inane, wrong-headed. Yup. My feeling in this situation is to hate the sin, not the sinner. I mean, a lot of my friends are dumbasses, and I’ve been there myself.
But a little voice in my head suggests that "sinner vs. sin" is the easy way out. So I ask you: What is the proper response? Should I ban Nir from the blog? I’m not promising to take your advice, but I’d like to know what you all think.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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