Colonial Williamsburg Follows Disney’s Lead: The popular Virginia tourist destination has apparently learned nothing from a related disastrous decision by Disney’s woke leadership

According to an article in the Federalist, the popular tourist destination of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia (one of the largest living history museums in the world) has apparently learned nothing from a related disastrous decision by Disney’s woke leadership. The author said, “…it has faithfully depicted the founding culture of America in a meticulously recreated, and often re-enacted, Revolutionary-era capital. This depiction included America’s undeniably traditional, Western, largely Judeo-Christian roots. But now Williamsburg has gone woke. In doing so, its leadership and staff are displaying conspicuous enmity toward the highly reasoned position held by America’s founders -- a position at odds with today’s LGBT dogma.”

Williamsburg was the original state capitol of Virginia, but the Revolutionary War convinced the government to move the capitol to less militarily vulnerable Richmond. Left behind were many of the original colonial-era government buildings creating a ghost town and by the 20^th century most required serious repairs. However, thanks to a visionary endowment in 1926 by the John. D. Rockefeller Jr. foundation, a massive preservation effort was started. Since then, it has been operated by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a not-for-profit, educational institution. I went there as a child, took my daughter and most recently took my grandchildren. I repeated the process at nearby Jamestown.

Although tourism seriously declined during the pandemic, creating a financial strain, the area continues to attract and impress thousands of visitors annually from all over the world. However, guests attending this June may be in for a surprise. Whoever made the programming change had to really contort the truth to allege some historical LGBT contributions. Following is a small sample reported by the Federalist:

“It’s not merely during Pride month, which Williamsburg now celebrates. Colonial Williamsburg has established an ongoing Gender and Sexual Diversity Research Committee

Go woke, go broke.

Life under a command-and-control regime is no way to live. Trying to guilt the good sober citizens into accepting passively the blandishments of all the “solemn” promises made in the name of “equality” and democracy” to be introduced under this command-and-control scheme, is just another path to the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. Those promises are never meant to be kept. And they never deliver, Grinding poverty and uncertainty for the masses is almost always the outcome, and a militaristic oligarchy keeps the palaces away from reach of the “common man”.

Until they no longer can, because of petty intrigues and internecine conflict in the elite classes. Witness the French Revolution, and how the draconian regime that replaced the royal rule was even more arbitrary and corrupt.

My wife and I have been to Williamsburg twice. The first time was wonderful; a great learning experience on the founding of the United States, which included a grand parade portraying the citizens of the time.

Our second visit to woke Williamsburg was dissapointing; an uncomfortable experience on the obsession of today’s wokism. There was no parade, just one presentation on the evils of the time after another.

The one positive experience was the person portraying Patrick Henry. His narrative stayed true to the historical record. Other than that, I have no desire to go back to Williamsburg.

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