To: Stoat
And yet in its poster for an exhibition to mark the hundredth anniversary of Sartre's birth the Bibliothèque Nationale de France decided, destructively or not, to edit out the philosopher's Gauloise.At the risk of being accused of hyperbole and gratuitous exaggeration, I can't help but note the company this puts France in...
Think. What countries come to mind who have attempted to revise or "forget" reality by airbrushing historical photographs, thereby "erasing" actual history for political purposes?
Sadly, one of those countries is the U.S., reference FDR...
8 posted on
03/10/2005 11:21:12 AM PST by
Publius6961
(The most abundant things in the universe are ignorance, stupidity and hydrogen)
To: Publius6961
I'd like a source for that. Not that I disbelieve you, but it never came up in AP History and now my curiousity is piqued.
15 posted on
03/10/2005 11:27:30 AM PST by
Eepsy
To: Publius6961
attempted to revise or "forget" reality by airbrushing historical photographs, thereby "erasing" actual history for political purposes?I was told by a film fanatic friend, that in Steven Spielberg's DVD re-release of "E.T.", the guns on the policemens hips were digitally removed. It's his movie and he can do what he wants, but I think it is totally ridiculous. "Doing it for the Chillllldren" of course.LOL
46 posted on
03/10/2005 12:31:57 PM PST by
Pagey
(Hillary talking about the bible is as hypocritical as Bill carrying one out of church for 8 years)
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