OldLady
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They're not getting rid of Gone With the Wind. HBO pulled it temporarily while they write some kind of disclaimer about the inherent racism in it.
Taking statues out of town squares and putting them in museums or parks dedicated to Confederate history is fine if the town wants to do that. Putting a racial warning on a movie that depicts blacks as childish slaves who loved their masters is fine, too. That's going to be offensive to a lot of people.
Rewriting history is not okay, but what has been proposed or done so far is not erasing our history. So far, it has been in response to people who are offended by honoring the side that fought to keep slaves. But we want to keep an eye on things. I grew up hearing about how the USSR rewrote its history books, even its newspaper archives, to keep a good view of the people in power at the time. That is awful. What some people today call "revisionist history" is actually showing the minority perspective, which hadn't been before. But we need to hear both sides still. Some of it is ugly but it needs to be taught. It happened. We learn history so as not to repeat mistakes.
But that doesn't mean Confederate statues or flags need to be officially honored in town squares or on state flag poles if it offends the people.
Taking statues out of town squares and putting them in museums or parks dedicated to Confederate history is fine if the town wants to do that. Putting a racial warning on a movie that depicts blacks as childish slaves who loved their masters is fine, too. That's going to be offensive to a lot of people.
Rewriting history is not okay, but what has been proposed or done so far is not erasing our history. So far, it has been in response to people who are offended by honoring the side that fought to keep slaves. But we want to keep an eye on things. I grew up hearing about how the USSR rewrote its history books, even its newspaper archives, to keep a good view of the people in power at the time. That is awful. What some people today call "revisionist history" is actually showing the minority perspective, which hadn't been before. But we need to hear both sides still. Some of it is ugly but it needs to be taught. It happened. We learn history so as not to repeat mistakes.
But that doesn't mean Confederate statues or flags need to be officially honored in town squares or on state flag poles if it offends the people.