Posted on 08/24/2022 4:43:35 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When recasting history to prop up Marxism, the truth doesn’t help.
No less than one week after a Marxist mob came for the president of the American Historical Association for his belief that historians ought to stick to the realm of objectivity rather than social justice, it now emerges that The Smithsonian National Museum of American History is bucking tradition in favor or leftist activism.
In a new exhibit covering Latin America, the museum neglected to include some of the most well-known histories. According to a piece published by El American, the opening parts of the exhibit address the “the brutality of European colonization, slavery, and the heroic resistance of the indigenous peoples”, while also failing to mention the “brutality” of the human scarifice rituals (which often included children) that were so commonplace in ancient Aztec and Mayan culture.
Yet, the Ministry of Truth didn’t stop there, and also scrubbed the exhibit of provocative figures like Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, and Daniel Ortega, tossing all evidence of their despotic regimes down the Memory Hole — described by one journalist, there was “no trace” of these men throughout the displays. Historians censoring history seems nefarious, so what could be the reason?
Well, they’re all Marxists, and the implementation of that ideology in government and policy has left legacies of unmitigated murder. How can academia indoctrinate the masses to favor leftwing doctrines, if the academics tell the truth? Nevermind the death squads and extrajudicial executions, Marxism is “for the people” — it just “hasn’t been done right.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.” ~ George Orwell
Marxism is evil and should be entirely wiped from the face of the Earth.
A fitting Orwell quote.
The liberals do not understand 1984 was a warning not a guide book.
The Smithsonian has been a long time bastion of academic LEFTism. I recalled to other’s attention the ‘history’ of their display of the B-29 Enola Gay bomber. The story that they had going, until others protested, had a completely Marxist viewpoint of the poor Japanese being bombed, without much, if any, context.
Some years ago, the Smithsonian put on a display about the nuclear bombing of Japan but failed to mention at all their prior attack on Peral Harbor.
Is anyone here aware of the marxists “going after” the president of the American Historical Assn mentioned early in the piece?
All great magazines that I subscribed to and read 30 years ago.
They have all lurched radically Left over the years and I let my subscriptions lapse.
If they can’t be counted on to print unbiased articles why would I waste my money?
I can get Leftist propaganda for free anywhere.
Add National Geographic to that list.
I gave up on those same magazines too.
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