“In recent days, we have seen an escalation in assaults upon American history.”
“Who controls the past controls the future” is a quote from George Orwell’s 1949 novel, “1984.”
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A few points about this article:
1) gee guys...you’re about 30 years late. That’s when the PC Revisionists started attacking Southern history. I didn’t hear a word from y’all about it even though I and practically every other Southerner warned you what would be next.
2) Ben Franklin may have publicly professed his antislavery sentiments but he was not about to turn away ad revenue for his many newspapers for the slave trade. That earned him a lot of money.
3) It was not just George, South Carolina and North Carolina who lobbied for a 20 year grandfather clause before the abolition of the slave trade in the constitution. New England slave traders lobbied every bit as vigorously for it too. How come that never gets mentioned?
In totalitarian societies, we have seen groups like the Nazis, the Red Guard, and the Taliban burn books, topple statues and destroy paintings. We should not permit those in our present-day society, a small but vocal group, to succeed in imitating such destructive behavior.
In totalitarian societies, we have seen groups like the Nazis, the Red Guard, and the Taliban burn books, topple statues and destroy paintings. We should not permit those in our present-day society, a small but vocal group, to succeed in imitating such destructive behavior.
Don’t let the left wing’s hatred of America erase and change our history.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” George Orwell, 1984
“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished?”
1984 by George Orwell
Home Literature 1984 Characters Winston Smith
“Do you realize that the past, starting from yesterday, has been actually abolished? If it survives anywhere, it’s in a few solid objects with no words attached to them, like that lump of glass there. Already we know almost literally nothing about the Revolution and the years before the Revolution.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, and every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day-by-day and minute-by-minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. I know, of course, that the past is falsified, but it would never be possible for me to prove it, even when I did the falsification myself. After the thing is done, no evidence ever remains. The only evidence is inside my own mind, and I don’t know with any certainty that any other human being shares my memories.
Just in that one instance, in my whole life, I did possess actual concrete evidence after the event – years after it.” (2.5.14, Winston to Julia)
https://www.shmoop.com/1984/winston-smith-quotes-2.html
Anyone can draw ridiculous parallels. Kaepernick doesn’t really see the American flag as a symbol of slavery, he just hates America because he’s a Marxist. And hating something, in the minds of many, justifies lying about it.
Heard today from Rush that late ‘90’s and 2000’s most sought after and used high school American History textbooks had about a paragraph on Abraham Lincoln, but several chapters on Bill Clinton...
That’s really in-depth history for our kids, huh????
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