It’s anti-Southern Bigot Awareness Month – Britannica Too???
(It’s that special time of year when all the white, whimp, pander pimps come out to raise their hands and be counted. This installment is courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica’s Britannica.com Website. That they allow and even claim to have ‘fact-checked’ this manure let’s you know how far they have fallen – DD)
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We Damn Your Memory! The Confederate Statue Controversy – Shadi Bartsch Zimmer
In choosing to remove monuments honoring figures now viewed as objectionable, contemporary Americans are in a world-historical majority. Removing statues is a recourse with a long history. Popular revolutions often bring down statues of hated rulers—one recalls the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Firdaus Square in April 2003—and around the globe Cecil J. Rhodes, Christopher Columbus, and many others have met similar fates. At the very birth of America, shortly after the ratification of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, a statue of King George III was toppled in Manhattan. But we should remember we also deplore such action when it functions as an attempt to erase ideologies deemed undesirable by rulers or religious groups intent on absolute control, the Taliban destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan being a recent case.
What many such cases have in common is the condemnation of one set of values by those holding an opposing one. The Confederate leaders’ statues exemplify this swerve in the perception of American history: figures judged worthy of honor in the past (or quite recently—Confederate statues were erected as late as 1948) are now judged unworthy of it. As James Young put it in “Memory and Counter-Memory” (1999), “Neither the monument nor its meaning is really everlasting. Both a monument and its significance are constructed in particular times and places, contingent on the political, historical, and aesthetic realities of the moment.” The often prominent position of such statues in city centers and parks is particularly problematic: such monuments were intended to remind citizens of their common values and of the sacrifices made to… (A once proud and useful reference consigned to the dustbin of wokeness – DD)
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