Pogo...Are you for erasing Confederate history? If so, why?
It is a history of hate and disgrace
And the democratic party.
Of Southern hatred and bigotry
Bigotry that existed for two hundred years before the Democratic Party
What does any of that have to do with this Orwellian, Soviet style attempt to destroy history?
That's an accurate characterization. Indeed the Cult of the Lost Cause
anticipated Orwell's maxim "who controls the past controls the future". So they set about the task of controlling the past by feverishly throwing up statues and monuments, memorializing the glorious Klan and literally rewriting history books until the Civil War became perverted to "the War of Northern Aggression", because We Have Always Been At War with Yankeedom.
And of course the degrading misery of the true Slavery experience in the LCC becomes thee unevent that never happened. Ignorance is Strength.
Orwell didn't write all that down until 1949. The Lost Cause Cult was way ahead of him.
Why are people acting like the Taliban and destroying statues? I know you're a hard core leftist communitst. But those like you and other unpatriotic individuals have no right to destroy our national history.
Right again, the Cult of the Lost Cause had no right to destroy and pervert our national history. It took too long but they're finally getting their comeuppance. Thanks for noticing.
Oh by the way no statues have been "destroyed". They've been
moved off of the PUBLIC SPACES they were deliberately placed in for maximum effect as propaganda transmitters. Like this one, deliberately placed at the literally busiest spot in the city:
That's the foot of Canal Street (the widest street in the US), where the famous New Orleans streetcar turns around to make its return. The monument commemorates an insurrection by a white supremacist group called the White League that took over the city and state government by force in protest of a biracial elected government. It was the first one New Orleans got rid of. And yet ----
they didn't "destroy" it. It's in some warehouse somewhere, and good riddance.
Not even this LCC monument was "destroyed" ----
That's a tribute to the birthplace of the (original) Ku Klux Klan, placed on the building where they were formed in 1865 at 205 West Madison Street in Pulaski Tennessee. It was "donated" and placed there by this same UDC we keep talking about, in 1917, one year after they commissioned Gutzon Borglum to carve a bas-relief into Stone Mountain, the site of the second (re-formed) Ku Klux Klan. This sign was also not "destroyed" --- it was turned backward so today it looks like this:
See that? Still there but now a blank slate. The building's owner who did that said it symbolized the town "turning its back on the Klan". NOBODY objected to that turnabout except Klan pilgrims coming to pay homage. They were pissed, just like you are. But it
isn't "destroyed" at all, so this hallucinatory whine-o fantasy fall down go boom.
You are quite correct that this wave of decades of historical revisionism that includes statues, monuments, plaques, mountain carvings, films like "Birth of a Nation" and "Gone With the Wind", segregated public facilities, race riots, "gentlemens' agreements' keeping blacks out of pro sports and entertainment, hotels and restaurants that wouldn't serve blacks, and of course decades of literally rewritten history books, is itself history that must be acknowledged and not swept under the rug. That's what we're doing here. Again, thanks for noticing.
