Letters to the Editor: Take a history lesson before advocating for the U.S.’s ‘dominant public ethos’

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To the editor : All it takes for the author to sound most persuasive in his full-throated, unequivocal admiration and advocacy for this country’s “dominant public ethos” derived from our “historical Protestant majority culture” is willful ignorance on a scale nothing short of remarkable ( “What does it mean to be an American, not just a citizen?,” Nov. 21).

In order to be most kind to contributing writer Josh Hammer’s viewpoint, let’s pretend he wasn’t referencing the same “moral and religious” Protestant majority that waged a genocide (“pogrom”) on Native Americans. Or the people who initiated this country’s most deadly war to defend slavery. Or the people who formed nationwid