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On Being with Krista Tippett

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Are There Crimes That Were Too Significant to Be Apologized For?

i wrote an essay called all apologies, wherei i tried to think through this question of, are there crimes that were too significant to be apologized for? Does something like slavery fall into that category? Something that a a wrong for which there is no apology? And, am, and i think in the end, where i've come out as a thinker is with the belief that that apologies are not insignificant. Even when they're symbolic, that there's you can make symbolic gestures that that can be restorative....

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