Erasing history?
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But what if the books are about famous slave owners like Muhammed?
*slave owning pedophiles like Muhammad.
Jamil stumbled into the next level protests. What happens when books are determined to be glorifying racism and bigotry??
Better throw them out too in order to prevent offensive language and hate.
Better throw them out too in order to prevent offensive language and hate.
Southern slave owners were democrats. And don't bother with 'the change' argument, it's false.
You are so consumed by identity politics. Let it go.
Until they ban or burn them.
See Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, etc.
GK, you are smarter than that sound bite.
The democrats at the time were conservatives. You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.
Slave owners were Democrats. That is the fact.
You want to justify by twist. Sorry, history is against you.
I wonder what historians will write about this period in our history - until a future generation of recreationally outraged finds these history books & demands they be burned.
I had no commentary on that "sound bite". I just found it an interesting point. The history of our nation isn't registered with these statues, they lie within the words of those who recorded it. I happen to disagree with tearing down those statues. Those men were products of their time. You can't apply modern standards and morals to different eras. And by the way...I strongly detest book banning. I'm with you on that.
As to bankers point...history books being a product of the writer's point of view is not a decades old phenomena. It has existed since history was recorded. Have you heard the phrase, "History belongs to the winners"? This was quoted by George Orwell in the 1940s. Similar commentary goes back centuries.
For example Napoleon said...
"What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon. As it has been very ingeniously remarked, there are, in these matters, two essential points, very distinct from each other: the positive facts, and the moral intentions."
I also found this in a discussion of the matter...
"History is the polemics of the victors." - Wm. F Buckley, Jr.
"The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class." - Kwame Nkrumah
All cited in "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen
So the thought that the books are being rewritten as a new phenomena of modern liberals is a misnomer. History has always been subject to the viewpoint of the writer. This is why primary and original source documents are the best way to see history from its original perspective.
But anyway herdman...because I quoted someone (without commentary) that I thought had an interesting point and would serve as a springboard to interesting discussion,...don't attribute any particular ideological view to it. You're smarter than that.
I'm not sure I care that much about random statues unless they are erected on locations of important events.
A couple of months ago I walked the Antietam Battlefield. Step into Bloody Lane and look at the monuments detailing the carnage wrought as our nation was torn apart. Tell me then that I can just read about it in a book and get the same impact.
A couple of months ago I walked the Antietam Battlefield. Step into Bloody Lane and look at the monuments detailing the carnage wrought as our nation was torn apart. Tell me then that I can just read about it in a book and get the same impact.
