Posted on 08/23/2022 4:57:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Questioning leftist propaganda is now a cardinal sin.
Leftism is a discipline of doublethink, and nowhere is that more apparent than its approach towards morality. Moral relativism is the name of the game, until the ethic in question imperils the fragile architecture of the left’s inconsistent and collective mind. For many of the academicians at the American Historical Association, intellectual honesty and discourse makes you the chief among sinners.
Six days ago, James H. Sweet, president of the AHA, published a written piece in the association’s editorial titled, “Is History History?” — and the ensuing fallout was described by one journalist as suicide.
In the column, Sweet expounded upon his initial question, and detailed his analysis that politics and personal ideologies are now lenses through which the historical discipline is viewed, particularly when it comes time to the 1619 Project. According to Sweet, with a diminishing number of historians studying the premodern era, they often develop the belief that the only history that “matters” is that which is read “through the prism of contemporary social justice issues[.]” His assessment provided the reader with a logical and thought-provoking perspective in support of his claim, and the Marxist mob became unhinged.
Under a Twitter thread started by Cate Denial, a female professor at Knox College, leftist activist historians “flood[ed]” social media “with profanity-laced attacks on Sweet’s race and gender as well as calls for his resignation” while Denial urged her colleagues to badger the AHA Executive Board in pursuit of cancel culture consequences.
Unironically, none of Sweet’s critics were able to offer an intellectual rebuttal to his claims — the attacks were purely ad hominem. That’s not surprising though, because the 1619 Project is explicitly a “journalistic” endeavor. Its creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones even publicly recognized the nature of the project’s content to
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History has been subjugated to ideology for a long time. The only news here is that someone has said so out loud.
Have the Dems condemned their violence like they do MAGA?
This won’t come as a surprise to you.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the 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.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Kick their sorry asses out the door and keep them out.
If them use violence, double it with vengence.
Not kidding.
Not kidding at all.
Make them hurt.
And make them lament over the cries of whatever thing they are sleeping with.
And put flies in their drugs.
Bkmk
Sounds to me like Cate is in denial.
Not all history erasers are Democrats.
Nimrata Randhawa helped get this ball rolling.
It’s not her history, so she doesn’t care.
The founders knew what they were doing when they excluded the children of foreigners from being President with the natural born citizen clause.
This is actually an interesting development. The AHA has been the realm of leftist/marxist academic historians for DECADES - they set the tone for what was ‘acceptable’ group-think in that discipline.
To have these marxists calling out the new wokeist mob (which in many peoples eyes, they fostered) is indeed an interesting twist.
“through the prism of contemporary social justice issues[
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In other words
Through bias
Through prejudice
Social justice warriors are prejudiced bigots .
To those who inhabit the hierarchies of these organizations, I offer the following advice: Never, ever resign, no matter how loud they scream. The howling freaks actually hate the field of study that you love and want to see it torn down. They are your enemies and should be treated as such.
Good call.
Two words—Howard Zinn. Best selling American history book only because it is required reading in more schools than any other book, with the possible literary exception of To Kill A Mockingbird.
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