UDC's aim to put spin on history, expert says

Tennessean.com ^ | 10/19/02 | JENNIFER BARNETT

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The United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded as much to pass down a pro-Confederate version of history as to keep alive the memories of the soldiers who fought for the South, a historian who has written a book about the organization said yesterday.

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[vetvetdoug]

UDC's aim to put spin on history, expert says...

This so called expert of the Stamp, Gallager, McPherson, Nolan, and Hunter mode is just a PC shill to further the agenda of Vanderbilt University. The UDC is just trying and has been fighting the lies perpetrated by the North and revisionists. The war was simply Lincoln's instrument to subvert the Constitution and form a centralized government and a Republican empire. The Jeffersonian way of government was killed at the point of a bayonett and the Hamiltonian system installed; slavery was simply an instrument but not the prevailing reason. Revisionism is in full tilt mode since political correctness has been embraced by mind numbed robots at liberal colleges.

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Revisionism is in full tilt mode since political correctness has been embraced

It most certainly has! I had to laugh at the irony of the article, the PC Police calling an honorary organization "revisionist".

Great post, vetvetdoug.

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The United Daughters of the Confederacy was founded as much to pass down a pro-Confederate version of history as to keep alive the memories of the soldiers who fought for the South, a historian who has written a book about the organization said yesterday.

OHMYGODD!!!!!How dare anyone have a non-approved historical viewpoint! And if they do, well, we're certainly justified in taking whatever money they may have and renege on whatever we promised them in order to get the money. How niggardly of them to expect they should get what they paid for!! </liberal mindset>

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I suppose Vandy could tear the building down and rebuild it, then rename it. That would get 'em off the hook.
Or..Vandy could return the 50k..with interest.
Otherwise, I'm guessing, shamefully, this goes nowhere.

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Karen Cox certainly has been a prolific contributor to Web culture -- do a google and she's all over the place! She is the Director of Public History at UNC and can be reached here: kcox@email.uncc.edu and (704) 687-4642 (work).

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I suppose Vandy could tear the building down and rebuild it, then rename it. That would get 'em off the hook. Or..Vandy could return the 50k..with interest. Otherwise, I'm guessing, shamefully, this goes nowhere.

Actually, at this point, I think the only fair resolution, if they want out of the bargain, would be, not to return the money, with interest, but the current fair market value of the building.

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My email...

Dear Ms. Cox,

I read your comments in the online edition of the Tennesseean. Assuming you were quoted correctly, your response in no way justifies Vanderbilt's accepting the United Daughters of the Confederacy funds and then disregarding the group's wishes. To illustrate how much a partisan maneuver this is, imagine the same thing done with funds contributed by the Southern Law and Poverty center. The latter is unthinkable -- and the decision redounds to who is "out" in this year's version of political correctness. It seems to be perfectly acceptible to take the money of the "out crowd," whisper facile promises to them, and then do whatever you wish with it. You, of course, simply provided the philosophical cover for the university's actions, while upholding the old credo of "might makes right." Who cares about justice when you're punishing the "out crowd" right? Why bother about equal treatment when you're cleansing the university from unallowed viewpoints, right? (So much for diversity of viewpoints! I suppose the old concept of the university as a universe of ideas is dead, replaced with a Stalinesque party line.) Pathetic. There is no honor among thieves and likewise, there is no honor among academicians.

Sincerely,

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UNC is pretty liberal isn't it? I know there are some alumni on FR.

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Good letter. Here's more to think about:

"The first law of the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice."
- Cicero (106-43 B.C.)

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Oops! Thought this was about the University of the District of Columbia!

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Well, I don't agree with your Confederate revisionism, but it is still obvious to me that these people have no honor, and that their offense is actionable. (Note too that the offenders in question are Southrons, not Yankees.)

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"Southrons" translated, in this case, as "scalawags" and "carpetbaggers". Usually, we natives of Dixie just call them "D@mn Yankees" because they stayed instead of returning north. Deo Vindice.