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PJ Mediahttps://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/02/17/apology_as_hate_crime_or_putti/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 04:22:42 -0400Apology as Hate Crime, or Putting Your Money Where Your Politically Correct Mouth Is<![CDATA[In my post yesterday about the Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s cringe-making “apology” to the Aborigines for the sins of his fathers, I mentioned Keith Windschuttle’s excellent book The Fabrication of Australian History. What I did not know was that volume two of Mr. Windschuttle’s work will be out shortly from Macleay Press. At the center of this volume of his ambitious panopticon of the history of Down Under is the “Stolen Generations” controversy that precipitated, or at least provided the pretext for, Prime Minister Rudd’s exercise in politically correct contrition: the idea that “tens of thousands” (as The New York Times moronically reported a few days ago ) of Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families in an effort of social engineering that amounted to “genocide.”]]>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:48:16 -0500<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2008/02/17/apology_as_hate_crime_or_putti-n114578