Posted on 02/16/2019 6:24:54 AM PST by Twotone
The recent news that the University of Notre Dame, responding to complaints by some students, would “shroud” its twelve 134-year-old murals depicting Christopher Columbus was disappointing. It was not surprising, however, to anyone who has been paying attention to the widespread attack on America’s past wherever social justice warriors congregate.
Notre Dame may not be particularly friendly to its Catholic heritage, but its president, the Rev. John Jenkins, demonstrated that it remains true to its jesuitical (if not, quite, its Jesuit) inheritance. Queried about the censorship, he said, apparently without irony, that his decision to cover the murals was not intended to conceal anything, but rather to tell “the full story” of Columbus’s activities.
Welcome to the new Orwellian world where censorship is free speech and we respect the past by attempting to elide it.
Over the past several years, we have seen a rising tide of assaults on statues and other works of art representing our nation’s history by those who are eager to squeeze that complex story into a box defined by the evolving rules of political correctness. We might call this the “monument controversy,” and what happened at Notre Dame is a case in point: a vocal minority, claiming victim status, demands the destruction, removal, or concealment of some object of which they disapprove. Usually, the official response is instant capitulation.
As the French writer Charles Péguy once observed, “It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not looking sufficiently progressive.”
(Excerpt) Read more at imprimis.hillsdale.edu ...
ND should consider looking for a new CEO...
Causing a snowflake to feel uncomfortable these days should result in Pres. Trump declaring that a true national emergency.
Can we stop using that term? I know it's often meant ironically, but there are at least three things wrong with it.
First, it's a euphemism made up by the Left to sugar-coat their fascism. It's just a palatable phrase that's designed to hide the intolerance and tyranny behind the racism, class envy, and violence that are hallmarks of leftist totalitarianism.
Second, it's a lie. There's nothing "just" about the demands that white male God-fearing America deny its successes and wallow in its failures. There's nothing "just" about stealing money from people who've earned it, to hand out to people who haven't. There's nothing "just" about discriminating against people on the basis of their skin color, as long as it's white. There's no "justice" in these people, only hate. But "hate tyrants" wouldn't sell very well to the public.
Third, the movement isn't even social. It's limited to a handful of malcontents who are in fact ANTI-social. At heart, they're anarchists, and you don't get much more anti-social than that.
About the only thing they got right was the "warrior" part, in the sense that these people are always at war with somebody over something.
So let's stop giving them the high ground. Find a more accurate term for the oppressive, intolerant, self-righteous, pretentious, narrow-minded, bigoted marxists.
I modestly propose:
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“Hysterical Psychotic Whiners”
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That should work fine.
Artists produce works of art that reflect their own sense of life. Viewers of art have an emotional response to the artwork that reflects the viewer’s sense of life. The sense of life is an automatic subconscious opinion of what is important about life, man, reality, other people, and oneself. The sense of life of libtards is hatred of the good for being the good and the love of the bad and the power of the bad. They are going to want to destroy or hide any works of art that show the good.
You think Robert E. Lee is offensive to America and our history ?
ff
It still amazes me that there is no movement to scrub the Democratic Party from history. Shouldn’t they dissolve, since that was the party of Slavery, the KKK & Jim Crow laws? Shouldn’t THE PARTY pay reparations?
Every time some little petty tyrant demands the removal of some aspect of our history, Republicans & conservatives should step up with that as a suggestion. I think they’d pretty soon stop the nonsense.
Every ONE of those ropes pulling down a statue of our heritage should have been cut and the puller mobbed, and NOW I understand, it doesn't and SHOULDN'T matter if it is a cop at the end of that rope.
His uniform does not give him authority to act like the muslims blowing up ancient Middle Eastern's civilized history !
WE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFULLY TERRORIZED AND THEY KNOW IT.
NOW we have a President that will have our backs (or not) that we can look to as an ensample.
Fox's Book of Martyrs is completely FULL of folks that gave their lives for "the cause"
WE won't ... We keep thinking Ellen DegenErate will become normal and if SHE doesn't, then WE will change to become her.
SHUT DOWN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
THEY NO LONGER SERVE THE PUBLIC.
Well said. Leftist euphemisms are typically the opposite of what they represent: Orwell on Parade.
It is for that reason I refuse to use
Politically Correct (Culturally Marxist) terms, since that yields precious philosophical territory to the enemy. To wit:
There is no such thing as homosexuality (i.e., a functional form of human reproduction between two persons of the same binary sex), and such are frequently not gay temperamentally. It is homoeroticism: the narcissistic fetishization of another person of the same binary sex.
To even use those terms grants their unnatural behavior a legitimacy it does not merit.
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