[Laker14]

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Originally Posted by Laker14

Nothing being whitewashed in any way.

Their JOB is not to change the words but alert readers to the fact that words were written in a different time. And history MUST be read in context.

Won’t be around when it is finalized but will be “interesting” how this particular period is written about.

Recalling, as a retired historian, when the Tea Party adopted “Don’t tread on me” as a motto and a flag and how that attitude of anti government has grown in to what we have today.

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Originally Posted by Bucco

Nothing is being whitewashed? History IS being spun. Statues are being removed, damaged by mindless MOBS. Books are being removed form school libraries.

The Tea Party adopted, "Don't tread on me," as a motto. It would take a book to reply.
History. The Tea Party of Boston was not as simple as taught in school. A tax on tea.
While they did not yet know about germs they knew that you could not safely drink the water in the cities without getting sick. Then as now you need water to live. People drank liquor as the alcohol killed germs. I expect the heroes to me, who wrote the declaration of independence, the constitution etc had a buzz on when they did it.
As to tea, since you boiled the water, that too would bill the germs.

The destruction of the British tea screaming about taxes, was organized by Alexander Hamilton a bit of a scoundrel turned into a hero by history. Hamilton had a warehouse full of tea and he would have been financially ruined by the British tea.

We think, we are indoctrinated as if scoundrels have just been invented.

Whoah Nellie!! that's not my post being quoted as my post! I never said that or anything like that. My post was directing the thread via a link to the NARA site, putting the statement into proper context.