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Originally Posted by Slighted
none of this is true. its not re-writting history, its just not celebrating the more evil racist parts of our history.
no one is talking about removing them for the history books. people will still talk about them. they just dont deserve statues for being POS humans regardless of the times..
If you do not believe it will be a removal from education as well, then you have not been paying attention. It is already happening in school districts around the country.
The simple reality is that we have a generation that is indeed trying to remove history. The actual teaching of history, to include art, necessarily includes the perceived bad with the perceived good.
Too many people, getting back to Kate Smith, overlook the very overt steps that she took to address what is now recognized as 'racist' behaviors. But I guess it is too easy not to look at the speeches that she gave in the 30's and 40's...some of which the Yankees and Flyers management could have found with a simple google search. I guess it is easier to cater to the perpetually offended by hiding things than it is to try addressing issues through conversation...which is why forums of this nature also tend to self-implode. Too many people want to simply say that everything a particular person did was bad and thus they must be removed from view...never mind that in many instances, the individual whose actions resulted in a statue or a jurisdiction being named for them did a lot of good.
I can only wonder how long it is before we simply have generic labels attached to everything, with a label on the school that simply says 'school' or the sign at the edge of town that just says 'town' or 'city' without actually letting you know WHERE you are because, OMG, the person whose name appears did something that offended someone somewhere.
This entire notion of does "insert name" deserve to be forgiven is farcical. History is NEVER going to be politically correct when viewed through the lenses of a current period of time. And by trying to remove elements from view, it is simply going to allow the old adage to be proven true that those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it...