With the wanton destruction of all of our sacred symbols and statues, I think we are in it. Nobody is stopping them from destroying Columbus, now Jefferson. Tomorrow Washington. They are erasing our history as we speak.
Democrat governors and mayors are supporting, aiding and abetting this.
Insurrection in major American city.
We are in it.
Democrat governors and mayors are supporting, aiding and abetting this.
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A Republican Governor kicked off the history erasing.
Everybody thank Nikki Haley
They are erasing our history as we speak.
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Here’s a (somewhat) contrarian view:
They are destroying/removing symbols. Most people never even looked at many of those statues or thought much about them.
They have already rewritten the history (Zinn;1619). Neither attempt alters the reality of that history. Some of us remember. Others have guarded paper records (books) and family histories. Many of these will now be able to inform the rest.
IOW: they can mandate public language and behavior, but they cannot mandate thought in most of us.
I’m wondering what fallout occurs? Do more Americans now search out real history in the form of concurrent records/reports/personal writings? During shampeachment, Americans became constitutional scholars, if not experts. During the first 3 months of COVID, Americans became lay virologists, immunologists and epidemiologists. Will Americans now become historians? Certainly, history is no less accessible than the Constitution or basic medical information, perhaps it is even more accessible.
It’s been interesting to watch the online discussions over the past 6 months, as people who mostly did not GAF about much besides their own personal lives began to think and argue and research professional areas of thought in constitutional law and medicine.
I’m actually looking forward to the same in historical areas. Here on FR, constitutional law and history back to the Greeks and Romans has always had a constituency. All aspects of medicine came to the fore during the 1st 3 months of the lockdown. I’m thinking American history is now going to become ubiquitous. I find this amusing, since, of all history classes, many professors went out of their way, even 50 years ago, to make American history dull and boring. I know I dreaded it back in the day, while European history seemed much more vibrant and engaging.
Now, I have come to believe that every bad political and social idea in the world originated somewhere in Europe, led to war and eventually to totalitarianism or authoritarianism. American history suddenly seems vibrant, in comparison.
Will we witness a resurgence of critical thinking? One can only hope.
TL;DR: every cloud has a silver lining.
...”We are in it”....
And a civil war isn’t going to fix it either anymore than these riots....Blacks and these groups who set fires, loot and continue to be destructive have given me every reason to avoid them in the future, and I am and will. And that’s because even the protesters were encouraging and celebrating these happenings, did nothing to stop it.