Sure everyone has to move on. This opinion piece, discusses the need to move on in the context of John Tamihere and Israelis.
There are two problems i have when people advise an injured party to "move on".
a) If you are being victimised regularly by a more powerful group and don't fight everything, you are effectively suffering a permanent handicap to any chance you have of getting ahead. If the victimisation is ongoing, so should the fight be (unless you can change the rules by effectively playing another game).
b) Other people can cloak their unwillingness to address an injustice in a feigned desire to see people do the healthy thing and let go of the pain in the past. Or, they haven't figured out that they still don't understand the injustice, and therefore their advice (while well meaning) is based on inaccurate information. If they don't understand the injustice, they may well perpertrate it again (which takes us back to point a).
Posted by carla at April 17, 2005 05:34 PM