Posted on 07/09/2022 2:52:46 PM PDT by DFG
Monticello is going woke — and trashing Thomas Jefferson’s good name in the process.
The Charlottesville, Virginia, home of the Founding Father and America’s third president is one of our best-known national monuments, familiar from its appearance on the nickel since 1938.
But the hilltop mansion designed by Jefferson himself, once preserved as a tribute to the author of the Declaration of Independence, now offers visitors a harangue on the horrors of slavery.
“The whole thing has the feel of propaganda and manipulation,” Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the libertarian Brownstone Institute and a recent visitor, told The Post. “People on my tour seemed sad and demoralized.”
The new emphasis is the culmination of a 10-year effort to balance the historical record, officials of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the estate, have said.
But visitors complain that employees go out of their way to belittle Jefferson and his life.
“The tour guides play ‘besmirchment derby,’ never missing a chance to defame this brilliant, complex man,” Stephen Owen of Enochville, NC, wrote on Facebook.
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Without Jefferson, we would have NO USA!!!!
Act accordingly!!!!
You’re absolutely right !!!!!
You’re absolutely right !!!!!
Ping!
As earlier noted...
I've heard that the same thing is going on at the National Archives, where the originals of the Declaration and Constitution are housed. Maybe they have posted trigger warnings because of the white cursive writing; I haven't been in there lately. Others who work in DC have said they are appalled by the wokety-wokeness going on at the several Smithsonian museums.
This last week I was at Fort Monroe and the PC narrative and bashing of Confederates was the fare. The kiosks are riddled with political correctness and the Jefferson Davis Memorial Arch had his name removed. The NPS has been taken over by liberals and PC leaders.
Figures. Socialist ruin everything. And they’re so freakin’ GOOD at it, too! Grrrrr!
“The philosophical doctrines consulted for the Declaration of Independence and Constitution placed master and slave on the same plain of existence . . .”
That is an interesting comment.
Is that why the document is known as the Declaration of Equality?
WOMEN AND THE CONSTITUTION: WHY THE CONSTITUTION INCLUDES WOMEN
Women and the Constitution: Why the Constitution Includes Women - Commonplace - The Journal of early American Life
History of American Women: Susan B. Anthony
https://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2012/03/susan-b-anthony.htm
Her logic based on the Bible and the1828 Webster dictionary was:
AND GOD SAID:,“Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, …. So God created mankind in his own image,….male and female he created them.
MAN/ MANKIND: the human race; the whole species of human beings.
PERSON: An individual human being consisting of body and soul.
PEOPLE: The body of persons who compose a community.
CITIZEN: In the United States, a person, native or naturalized, who has the privilege of exercising the elective franchise, or the qualifications which enable him to vote for rulers.
FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Presentation was bias 6 years ago . I can’t imagine how awful it is “woke”.
Look at the wealthy Democrats on the board.
“The philosophical doctrines consulted for the Declaration of Independence and Constitution placed master and slave on the same plain of existence . . .”
That is an interesting comment.
When Jefferson wrote about “merciless Indian Savages” was that too for the purpose of placing native Americans on the same “plain” of existence?
The reason I ask: I don’t think Jefferson was advocating making college presidents, electors, or jurists of native Americans when he wrote the DOI.
I would be surprised if you can find primary sources to argue he was.
Practical application of these primary theoretical sources to circumstances often requires a good deal of energy. I think of the persistence of William Wilberforce which caused the most ordinary men of Great Britain to find positions needed to abolish slavery throughout the Empire in 1833. He first had to convince his colleagues these things were humans deserving application of political theory to them.
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