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Spielberg's Lincoln & Academia's Call To Worship
Old Virginia Blog ^ | 9/18/2012 | Richard Williams

Posted on 09/20/2012 4:31:14 AM PDT by Davy Buck

. . . the truth is, academia and the educational establishment believe they are allowed to have their heroes - whether it's expressed by teacher's unions celebrating with an image of Che Guevera emblazoned on a t-shirt while marching in protest with communists, or whether it's expressed with giddiness over a Hollywood Lincoln movie that's not even been released yet, that kind of "celebratory" history is just fine and dandy. Am I the only one who sees the double-standards? Perhaps these folks view themselves as so intellectually and morally superior to the rest of us that they view their "celebratory" history on a whole different level and, therefore, acceptable. Elitism on parade.

But Southerners who have ancestors who fought for the Confederacy? No, no, no - those folks are emotional and immature in their admiration for the heroic qualities and bravery exhibited by everyone from the dirt-farmer private (my 3 great-great grandfathers) in the CSA, to men like Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson . . .

(Excerpt) Read more at oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Education; History; Religion; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: academia; confederacy; fff; greatestpresident; kkkonfr; lincoln; spielberg; whitesupremacy

1 posted on 09/20/2012 4:31:27 AM PDT by Davy Buck
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To: Davy Buck

” Perhaps these folks view themselves as so intellectually and morally superior to the rest of us”

Bingo! We have a winner!


2 posted on 09/20/2012 4:40:36 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (searching for something meaningfull to say)
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To: Davy Buck

I bet that they never mention Lincoln was a Republican!


3 posted on 09/20/2012 5:14:35 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: vanilla swirl
Any way ole Honest Abe was a dang Republican. Why he is up and Democrats like Jeff Davis are down is puzzling.
4 posted on 09/20/2012 5:16:38 AM PDT by carumba (The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho)
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To: Davy Buck
I'll agree with the author that Lincoln is one of those figures in U.S. history where it is almost impossible to find an unbiased presentation on film. Some people believe he was pure as the driven snow while others, like the author, believe he is the devil incarnate. In fact he was neither. I don't expect Spielberg's movie to change that.

But I admit that I found it amusing that his view of the perfect Civil War movie, Gods and Generals, was a movie that was very loosely based on a work of fiction.

5 posted on 09/20/2012 5:32:31 AM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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To: Davy Buck

I don’t intend to see it, because I am tired of Spielberg’s socialism.


6 posted on 09/20/2012 5:44:44 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: popdonnelly
I don’t intend to see it, because I am tired of Spielberg’s socialism.

I don't understand that from Spielberg. He's the guy who made Schindler's List and Amistad. How can someone make movies like those and then side with the people who caused that misery to occur?

7 posted on 09/20/2012 6:57:33 AM PDT by Family Guy (A society's first line of defense is not the law but customs, traditions and moral values. -Williams)
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To: Family Guy

Maybe because no matter how many clever ideas one has, sooner or later their basic instincts bleed through.


8 posted on 09/20/2012 8:44:22 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Davy Buck

The grapes are particularly sour for this guy...


9 posted on 09/20/2012 8:48:17 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Davy Buck

The southern plutocrats launched a war they couldn’t hope to win and their generals compounded that stupidity by engaging a numerically superior opponent all the while having no navy to speak of. One of the Norths first moves was to blockade Southern ports. From then on the South was just running the clock out.


10 posted on 09/20/2012 12:24:19 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: Davy Buck

One out of ten Southerners who fought in the Civil War loved ‘Old Glory’ and fought for the Union...something the neo-reb revisionists would be well advised to remember.


11 posted on 09/21/2012 6:11:16 AM PDT by mac_truck ( Aide toi et dieu t aidera)
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To: rockrr
The grapes are particularly sour for this guy...

Tell me about it. This OV blogger clown reaches too quickly for his revolver.

I look forward to seeing any movie about the Civil War. Sometimes I'm disappointed, sometimes I'm not. There's nothing ideological about it and nothing regional.

A good, well done film can overcome people's prejudices. A bad one merely confirms them.

12 posted on 09/21/2012 1:43:36 PM PDT by x
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To: jmacusa; x; mac_truck

Well put.


13 posted on 09/22/2012 8:31:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks.


14 posted on 09/22/2012 9:35:37 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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