[davem4616]

I'm beginning to wonder if and when the pendulum on censorship will swing back to the middle...

Movies like "Gone With The Wind" are now being pulled from the likes of HBO and other streaming services because companies are fearful of backlash....Military bases and streets named after Southern Civil War generals are now subject to being changed...

for decades Disney has hidden it's movie "Song of the South"

statues of Southern Civil War leaders are being torn down...

when will protesters demand that the beautiful statue of General Lee that sits across the field of battle from General Grant's statue in Gettysburg be forced to be taken down??

When will the cry to erase Thomas Jefferson's name from our history come because he owned slaves?

What's next??

[Stu from NYC]

Perhaps part of the problem is they do a terrible job of teaching our history in school.

It is terrible they are removing statues of people who have helped make us the country we are.

Very strangely a statue of Columbus was tossed in a lake.

[Tom52]

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Originally Posted by davem4616

I'm beginning to wonder if and when the pendulum on censorship will swing back to the middle...

Movies like "Gone With The Wind" are now being pulled from the likes of HBO and other streaming services because companies are fearful of backlash....Military bases and streets named after Southern Civil War generals are now subject to being changed...

for decades Disney has hidden it's movie "Song of the South"

statues of Southern Civil War leaders are being torn down...

when will protesters demand that the beautiful statue of General Lee that sits across the field of battle from General Grant's statue in Gettysburg be forced to be taken down??

When will the cry to erase Thomas Jefferson's name from our history come because he owned slaves?

What's next??

Strange that general Grant has a statue at Gettysburg seeing as he was concluding the siege of Vicksburg Mississippi at that time. General George Meade was the commander of Union forces at the battle of Gettysburg.

[Number 10 GI]

Seems like they did something like this in the 1930's and 1940' in Germany, except they burned books. The USSR edited or destroyed a lot of media material that they didn't like.

[davem4616]

Originally Posted by Tom52

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Strange that general Grant has a statue at Gettysburg seeing as he was concluding the siege of Vicksburg Mississippi at that time. General George Meade was the commander of Union forces at the battle of Gettysburg.

Tom, I stand corrected...it was a statue of Meade that represented the Union forces

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

These statues belong in a museum in an exhibition about the slave trade and the Civil War. Maybe in an entire wing dedicated to what happens when you don't embrace differences.

Columbus is irrelevant. As has been pointed out for decades now, he didn't actually discover NORTH America at all. He never set foot on this continent and he has nothing to do with North American history.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Columbus is irrelevant. As has been pointed out for decades now, he didn't actually discover NORTH America at all. He never set foot on this continent and he has nothing to do with North American history.

He didsnt discover NA but guess the protesters just for the thrill of it decide to toss his statue in the river. Wonder if they even know who he was.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Stuart Zaikov

He didsnt discover NA but guess the protesters just for the thrill of it decide to toss his statue in the river. Wonder if they even know who he was.

Why do you wonder that? Do you think every picture and statue depicting Christopher Columbus isn't recognizable by anyone who has ever attended grade-school history classes? Or are you suggesting that people protesting against racism never attended grade-school history classes?

[Velvet]

Lol... the Communist do this type of thing so much better. They just rewrite history to say the way they think it SHOULD have happened. Then teach it at school as if it did.

[Two Bills]

By sanitising half of the history of any country to suit political ccorrectness and social trends, how do future generations learn from past mistakes?
Teach it, warts and all, and let the kids see where our leaders went wrong in the past.
Having said that, looking at the present state of the world, most of todays world leaders, all flunked their history exams!

[newgirl]

Hopefully they take it down today !!!! Sad

[Viperguy]

The bias won't stop until our education system educates. That includes primary, secondary and university systems. The reason that at home education is taking off.

[bowlingal]

will book burning be next?

[Hayek1957]

There are very few leaders and influential people in our history that have done nothing that may be regarded as reprehensible in today’s “enlightened” culture. We need to accept that people we respect have their faults regardless of their significant accomplishments.

To demonize historically significant people by contrasting their lifestyle without historical perspective is myopic. This tendency robs our society of the opportunity to appreciate the sacrifice of leaders while still appreciating the fact that they are still human.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Why do you wonder that? Do you think every picture and statue depicting Christopher Columbus isn't recognizable by anyone who has ever attended grade-school history classes? Or are you suggesting that people protesting against racism never attended grade-school history classes?

Our school system is doing a terrible job teaching our kids the history of our country or for that matter world history. And please notice the word all.

Why do you think that so many comments are racist?