Posted on 08/05/2020 4:46:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places. A tyrant's first battlefield is to rewrite history. Most notable were the political purges of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet government erased figures from Soviet history by renaming cities — such as the Imperial capital of St. Petersburg to Petrograd and Leningrad and Stalingrad — and eradicating memories of czarist rule. Stalin's historical revisions also included changing photographs and history books, thereby distorting children's learning within educational establishments.
Leaders of ISIS and the Taliban have called the recent U.S. trend of angry mobs destroying statues "inspiring but a bit amateur," and agreed to send advisers to Antifa and other far-left groups on how to erase historical artifacts. "Destroying all art, culture, and history from previous eras is obviously constructive," said ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi. "But they've got to do it in a more dramatic way. We beheaded statues with a sword. The Taliban blew up ancient Buddhas with dynamite. Tying a statue to a truck and dragging it down just doesn't have the same dramatic effect."
Most of the effort to rewrite American history has its roots among the intellectual elite on our college campuses whose message has been sold to predominantly white college students who have little understanding of how they are being used. Much of their current focus is on tearing down statues and changing names that they deem offensive. They have denounced George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln. Without much understanding of history, they have demanded that Princeton University remove the name of Woodrow Wilson, a progressive, from its public policy school and residential college. Some are urging Yale University to change its name because its benefactor Elihu Yale was a slave trader.
To purge our society of names associated with evil is going to be quite a task. I suggest that we set up a formal commission to deal with this formidable challenge. Maybe we can name it the Commission to Eliminate Bad Memories. There are some challenging issues. What should be done about our nation's capital, Washington and District of Columbia? After all, George Washington owned slaves, and Columbia is the feminine form of Columbus. Speaking of Washington, its football team, the Washington Redskins, has finally agreed to temporarily call themselves Washington Football Team until they can find a snazzier name.
Renaming things is a big job. Our military has several fighting aircraft named with what today's tyrants might consider racial slights, such as the Apache, Iroquois, Kiowa, Lakota, and Mescalero. Perhaps offensive to PETA, we also have military hardware named after animals, such as the Eagle, Falcon, Raptor, Cobra, and Dolphin.
Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune wrote, "Now that Washington's NFL team has announced its 'retirement' of the racial slur that has been its brand name since 1933, I am tempted to gloat a little." In response to Page's article, there is an email making the internet rounds that raises the issue of other problematic names. What about the Kansas City Chiefs, the Atlanta Braves, and the Cleveland Indians?
The New York Yankees might offend Southerners because there is no team named for the Confederacy. Some people, particularly Catholics, might be offended by or deem it sacrilegious to have sports teams named the New Orleans Saints, the Los Angeles Angels, or the San Diego Padres. Then what about team names that glorify savage barbarians and criminals who raped and pillaged, such as Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Pittsburgh Pirates? The New York Giants and the San Francisco Giants might be advocating obesity and the Milwaukee Brewers promoting alcoholism.
There is another naming issue that needs resolution. I have been working 40 years at George Mason University. Despite his monumental contributions, such as our Bill of Rights, George Mason was a slave owner. Therefore, in keeping with the times, George Mason University is due for a name change. How about Al Sharpton University, Jesse Jackson University, or Black Lives Matter University? Does objection to these names make one a racist?
The DNC and all its members should be next for Cancel Culture.
They don’t want to revise it.
They want to eliminate it.
History should never be repeated, but these idiots don’t get it.
Nazi/Marxist/Maoist/Taliban/NWT-New World TOTALITARIANS effort. Same playbook. Different times. Historical archetypes ALERT!
Jung left out the liar, the criminal, the destroyer.
Or you could go with ID.
The PC Revisionists in Acadamia - almost invariably 60s Leftists Such as Howard Zinn, James McPherson, Mark Neely, etc - started this in the 1980s and really got going in the 1990s with the “all about slavery” myth they pushed to explain the civil war.
Now Leftists have moved on to trying to rewrite the history of the secessionist movement of 1776 and just as I’ve been saying for at least 25 years, have moved on from trying to demonize Confederates to trying to demonize the Founding Fathers. You didn’t need a crystal ball to see this coming no matter how much Leftists lied and claimed they would never do that.
How about scanning brain waves and frequencies to find the correlations to the PSYCHOPATH?
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
Test these politicians.
Until then: Face - Words - Deeds
“The DNC and all its members should be next for Cancel Culture.”
ABSOLUTELY! 0 electoral votes...they would zero us out.
We can examine the remainder later.
I say we cancel culture the DNC and its platform
The DNC is the party of Slavery, secession, Civil War, racism, vote suppression and the Klu Klux Klan; they just want to hide that fact by destroying their own monuments.
Take away on this:
A tyrant’s first battlefield is to rewrite history.
(1) Redefine everything that is historic to the nation
“Destroying all art, culture, and history from previous eras...”
(2) Denounce historical figures that make patriotism positive
“They have denounced George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln...”
(3) Start at the college level to re-educate the adults that will then flow into the lower schools
(4)Divide the military from the people - and the divide the people among their own culture or social groups
(5) Separate the dominate religion that promotes law & order and replace it with physical items - sex - legal addictive drugs, etc to create chaos and disorder
(6) Use pass issues (slavery) to legitimize the violence towards local governments to force the national govt security forces into confrontation with “civilians”
uhm.... seems we have an insurrection of a domestic enemy within the borders of the United States of America...
The leftists wish to destroy American history so they can make it up as they go. Just imagine Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacking Father Damian! It is symbolic of what they are trying to do. They are trying to destroy our honoring of American heros. The end result for them is to elevate some of their people to high places, much like what was done with Vladimir Lenon, Adolf Hitler, etc.
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