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By Victor Volsky
In Stalin's Russia, genetics and cybernetics were treated as the cat's paw of imperialism and officially branded as "whores." But it was another branch of Soviet science, history, that was a far more deserving candidate to bear that not exactly honorific moniker. Russian historians loyally served the regime, meeting its propaganda needs in full compliance with a thesis propounded by the titular head of the Soviet school of history, Mikhail Pokrovsky: "History is the present telescoped into the past." Some American liberals have been faithfully following Pokrovsky's precept, reinventing the past in keeping with the progressive view of the world.
The Founding Fathers are being torn down by the progressives from their honorable place in the annals of America's history for one overriding reason: almost all of them were slave-owners. Their entire service to the country, their sacrifices, the enormous risks they consciously took for the sake of freedom -- all of this, in the progressive view, pales into insignificance next to the Founding Fathers' deadly sin of racism.
Granted, they might have treated their slaves well, and some of them even set them free. But what good was it, considering that they viewed blacks as inferior beings?
If rational arguments are incapable of persuading the implacable foes of racism on the Founders, maybe they might succumb to their own twisted logic. Why not use their racial yardstick on a hero from the progressive Pantheon -- say, the man who has gone down in history as the Great Emancipator? Let's put Abraham Lincoln under the progressive microscope.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
Articles: That Dirty, Rotten Racist...Abraham Lincoln
We do know that revised history by marxists is being taught in our school today.
In Stalin's Russia, genetics and cybernetics were treated as the cat's paw of imperialism and officially branded as "whores." But it was another branch of Soviet science, history, that was a far more deserving candidate to bear that not exactly honorific moniker. Russian historians loyally served the regime, meeting its propaganda needs in full compliance with a thesis propounded by the titular head of the Soviet school of history, Mikhail Pokrovsky: "History is the present telescoped into the past." Some American liberals have been faithfully following Pokrovsky's precept, reinventing the past in keeping with the progressive view of the world.
The Founding Fathers are being torn down by the progressives from their honorable place in the annals of America's history for one overriding reason: almost all of them were slave-owners. Their entire service to the country, their sacrifices, the enormous risks they consciously took for the sake of freedom -- all of this, in the progressive view, pales into insignificance next to the Founding Fathers' deadly sin of racism.
Granted, they might have treated their slaves well, and some of them even set them free. But what good was it, considering that they viewed blacks as inferior beings?
If rational arguments are incapable of persuading the implacable foes of racism on the Founders, maybe they might succumb to their own twisted logic. Why not use their racial yardstick on a hero from the progressive Pantheon -- say, the man who has gone down in history as the Great Emancipator? Let's put Abraham Lincoln under the progressive microscope.
(Excerpt)
Read more:
Articles: That Dirty, Rotten Racist...Abraham Lincoln
We do know that revised history by marxists is being taught in our school today.
