TemplarKormac
Political Atheist
There is a certain someone I know in my neck of the woods (whom I will not call out by name), who thinks we should simply admire our history from the pages of books and get rid of historical monuments deemed offensive because of what they memorialize, this all in a pique of emotion over what happened in Charlottesville. There's a problem with that however. History can be revised to fit a narrative, or a widely held ideological bias. History should be recited in its purest form, away from the preconceptions and political proclivities of those studying or retelling it.
Whether it be a monument on the ground or a picture on a page, history is history, and it would be no less offensive to the offended party if it were standing in public or pictured and written in a book. So what will this actually accomplish? When the offended party gets tired of seeing the images of or reading about these monuments in a book, will the book be the next thing to go?
There's no sating this kind of irrational thought. It is a slippery slope of imposed ignorance.
And before someone tells me that they as a taxpayer have a right to demand those monuments be removed, my grandmother (for example) has a right to demand they stay up, as a lawful taxpayer herself. Please do us all a favor and dispense with the self centered attitude.
Whether it be a monument on the ground or a picture on a page, history is history, and it would be no less offensive to the offended party if it were standing in public or pictured and written in a book. So what will this actually accomplish? When the offended party gets tired of seeing the images of or reading about these monuments in a book, will the book be the next thing to go?
There's no sating this kind of irrational thought. It is a slippery slope of imposed ignorance.
And before someone tells me that they as a taxpayer have a right to demand those monuments be removed, my grandmother (for example) has a right to demand they stay up, as a lawful taxpayer herself. Please do us all a favor and dispense with the self centered attitude.