Airbrushing Our Collective Memory

[Geee]

National Review:

The latest round of condemning the past on the moral criteria of the present started with banning the Confederate flag from public places. Now it is on to airbrushing away progressive old white guy Woodrow Wilson, in Trotskyized fashion, from public commemoration.

 

But do those on the Left realize that they are rapidly becoming captives to the consequences of their own ideology? Their current effort to rewrite the past is doomed to failure for a variety of reasons.

 

Left-Wing Hypocrisy

 

First, this damnation of memory is not a balanced enterprise, but predicated on today’s notions of politics, race, and gender. No one is insisting that the great work of Martin Luther King Jr. be dismissed from the pantheon of American heroism because he was a known plagiarist and often a callous womanizer who did not live up to our current notions of gender equality. The racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger is still a saint.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

Speaking as an unlicensed non-certified historian, it is very very rare that we find someone or a society that is simon pure mostly some good some bad, varying shades of gray (many many many example available on request). There was this Jew from Nazareth a long time ago.....but other than that...pack a lunch if you're gonna look.

[Geee]

@Geee

 

Speaking as an unlicensed non-certified historian, it is very very rare that we find someone or a society that is simon pure mostly some good some bad, varying shades of gray (many many many example available on request). There was this Jew from Nazareth a long time ago.....but other than that...pack a lunch if you're gonna look.

In doing some of the research that I mentioned to you - holy cow is that true. Some things I had forgotten about - some news to me.

[Valin]

Sparta comes to mind. Very divided government (Our Founders/Framer looked to Sparta not Athens as the example), Brave beyond belief. But slave society harsh even for that time....you had to kill a slave to become a citizen (Spartia), not to mention steal food, and become involved in a homosexual relationship with a older warrior.

 

Got more examples.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWLdTZzj9Yc

[Geee]

Slavery is such a part of ALL histories of ALL countries. Just about every country that conquered another made slave of some of the people they defeated. Not at all divided by race. Equal opportunity slave holders. In this country we made slaves of some of the Indians and visa versa. At least (not that I have read anyway) eat the Indians we took hostage. That was not always the case with the Indians - if they were hungry - they ate the white meat they had on hand