Nobel Prize-winning writer Guenther Grass just keeps getting hailed and slammed. Why don't any of these people lamenting the loss of his moral authority try being forced to join an army whose beliefs you don't share, then survive the ever-so-visceral horror of war?
I don't have to point out how many of Grass's pot-shooting critics make their observations in comfortable book-lined studies, while the much more serious issues of anti-Semitism and bigotry still linger in the public imagination? We should be behind him in bringing his message to a new generation, not telling a man who's lived through what he has to shut up and go away because his army service disqualifies him.
Who're the bigots here?
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