Posted on 06/25/2018 3:37:37 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Well, The only way to see what happened is to look backward. One way to look back is with a mirror.
History can not be examined any other way than looking backward.
When do they pull all reruns of “Little Home on the Prairie” from TV? Hold a public book burning?
do I understand here that they are taking back an award??
I agree. History will always be “judged” by those who come later. However, those doing the judging will not have lived through the actual events, so take it for what it is worth.
Removing white people from history. . .and some thought white women would be spared.
I have actually read the Little House books.
I never noticed anything racist.
My only issue was her idiot father who kept dragging his family into more remote and more dangerous locales until they almost starved to death during a really harsh winter in South Dakota.
Proving once again that there is nothing that liberal/progressive will not ruin.
The books were actually all about Pa.
However I loved their descriptions about life in those times.
And they were well written.
They were very well written.
But Pa was an idiot!
It is not about “looking back” it is about “JUDGING” people in history from a modern lens, which is judging them not within the context of their own times, but ours. Our context did not exist then and being judgemental from our contest tends to try to rewrite the history that already was, to make it conform to today’s context. Then it is no lonher history, but fictional history conforming to today’s context.
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the “Little Oppressive Patriarchal Racist Stronghold on the Prairie” series of novels.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past”
George Orwell
Another famed author discarded on the ash-bin of history with the “racist” Mark Twain.
The task of a historian is to research and discover references in the past and compile them into a current document.
The historian immediately discovers holes aand discreepancies in the various references and records. To stitch it together, some personal thoght must be brought to bear. It is certainly possible to dispassionately bserve and evaaluate with out making judgements.
The only way to discover and write about the past is to lookbackward.
A mirror caan be useful. To think otherwise is just foolish.
Future hstory is fiction
You know who’s really a racist, Charles Darwin.
His full book title: “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”
He was trying to prove that the English were the entitled rulers of the world. Of course, the Royal Society fully agreed.
This comes as a big surprise to me.
I have never heard a peep about "disapproval" of these books.
Seems like they were very popular.
I'd think that if they were in any way racist, we'd have heard the screaming for decades, like with Huckleberry Finn.
Nope, more likely some pinko SJW did a research paper for college in the past couple of years and "discovered" non-existent bigotry.
Protect the snow flakes. Hide the past. Instead of using this as a tool,of enlightenment bury it, ignore it, and repeat it in the future.
“Also, I have 2 nephews who are 1/2 Cherokee. Should I hold them accountable for a racist act of murder that was committed 283 years ago?”
Tell them they should pay you reparations.
“Matilda Lockhart broke down as she described the horrors she had endured — the rape, the relentless sexual humiliation and the way Comanche women had tortured her with fire. It wasn’t just her nose, her thin body was hideously scarred all over with burns.”
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