Erasing History

[Kathianne]

Good or bad, it was what it was and we either learn from it or not:

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/10/28/american-taliban-melt-down-lee-statue-in-secret-n588258

[Gunny]

Good or bad, it was what it was and we either learn from it or not:

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/10/28/american-taliban-melt-down-lee-statue-in-secret-n588258Current chooses "not". They're too busy rewriting:rolleyes:

[SassyLady]

So sad

[revelarts]

makes no sense.

People are weird about history. weirder now.

as you said Kath. it is what it is.
But somehow:
it seems some folks can't stand to see statues that show history but want to use that same history to paint everything today in the same light.
& it seems some folks can't see a problem with statues that memorialize people "on the wrong side of history", but don't really want the details of the darkness talked about "too much" or to color anyones views of what's happening today at all.

[Kathianne]

Erasing, except when it's considered cool to resurrect:

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/10/29/the-atlantic-wants-you-to-know-speaker-johnsons-great-great-great-grandfather-was-a-confederate-n588497


The Atlantic Wants You to Know Speaker Johnson's Great-Great-Great Grandfather Was a ConfederateJOSHUA BENTON FROM THE ATLANTIC 8:25 AM on October 29, 2023
On August 16, 1867, a young farmer named Alfred McDonald Sargent Johnson walked into the courthouse of Cherokee County, Georgia. He had an oath to swear.


The effects of the Civil War were still visible in Canton, a village of about 200 people and the county seat. For one thing, that makeshift courthouse was inside a Presbyterian church—its predecessor having been torched by William Tecumseh Sherman’s men shortly before their march to the sea. For another, Georgia was still under military rule as federal officials debated how best to reconstruct the former Confederate states. How does a government reintegrate the men who, not that long ago, were engaged in a treasonous rebellion?

LINK TO X AT SITE

[Ancestor shaming – all the cool kids do it. I gave you the tweet, too because the story looks like it’s paywalled, But the headline shows you just how desperate they are. ~ Beege]

[Gunny]

Erasing, except when it's considered cool to resurrect:

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/10/29/the-atlantic-wants-you-to-know-speaker-johnsons-great-great-great-grandfather-was-a-confederate-n588497


How does a government reintegrate the men who, not that long ago, were engaged in a treasonous rebellion?


But for the grace of God, there go our Founding Fathers:rolleyes: