False Attribution to Dr. King
false memoir is only part of what happens we are a people who crave myth--even if WE have to make it up thus--this piece from this: Fakery Follows the bin Laden Killing One of the boxed features in our book is "Myths and Misinformation," a category that includes fake or misattributed quotations. As a previous post noted , many credit Martin Luther King for saying "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice," even though the line belonged to Theodore Parker. At The Atlantic (h/t Tina Nguyen), Megan McArdle spots another fake King quotation: Shortly after I posted my piece on feeling curiously un-thrilled about Bin Laden's death, the following quote came across my twitter feed: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy." - Martin Luther King, Jr I admire the sentiment. But something about it just strikes me as off, like that great Marx q...