OPINION
There is no shame left in America anymore
By Maureen Callahan
March 7, 2019 | 2:42pm
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Shame is well and truly dead.
Think of all we’ve witnessed in the past few weeks alone, examples ranging from the outrageous to the ridiculous.
Jussie Smollett. Jeff Bezos. Patriots owner Robert Kraft. “Kayak killer” Angelika Graswald, convicted of letting her fiancé drown in the Hudson River, posing for Elle magazine underwater in her own bathtub. “I don’t regret what happened,” she said.
Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson, called out for plagiarizing at least six passages in her book about the state of journalism — which she denied before admitting to making “mistakes” that nonetheless should not “overshadow what I think is a really interesting book.”
Michael Cohen sitting before Congress and testifying, minus any real emotion, that he is a liar, a fraud and a craven opportunist. The Jackson estate suing HBO rather than offering recompense, let alone apologies. The president cursing during a speech at CPAC. The Bachelor’s entire season hanging on whether a 27-year-old virgin will actually have sex with at least one of his finalists!
As a culture we seem to have divested ourselves of shame — real shame, not the cheap and easy kind so easily doled out online, where anyone accused of “age-shaming” or “body-shaming” is expected to express, well, shame. Otherwise, there is never any reason to apologize, to admit full-on wrongdoing, let alone express deep, palpable shame over one’s behavior.
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READ MORE: https://nypost.com/2019/03/07/there-is-no-shame-left-in-america-anymore/
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In 2016 it was conventional wisdom, in media and political circles, that Trump was completely unelectable after he said John McCain wasn’t a war hero because “I like people that weren’t captured.” After the Access Hollywood “grab them by the pussy” tape was released, to no apology of any kind by Donald Trump and no real consequence, shame became irrelevant.
Yet here we are, ironically living in a perpetual outrage cycle that moves so fast we forget yesterday’s controversy today, because a new one has supplanted it. Why apologize when someone else will surely come along, doing or saying something even more egregious? The danger is, of course, that apologies become seen as weak, remorse so rare that we barely recognize it.
And that would truly be a shame.
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