[QUOTE=davem4616;2000949]there are far too many loony-tunes running around out there...you learn from history...you don't try to cover it up, or try to judge it through the eyes of the present

Wasn't it great when the "looney-tunes" was the cartoons on Saturday morning?

Speaking of Looney Tunes, it's just about time for a "That's All Folks!" for this thread.

What’s your source for this inflammatory “statement?” Do you believe all the stuff posted to rile you up and keep you controlled?

[QUOTE=Laker14;2001002]Thank you for that. The Original Poster seems to have completely misunderstood the web site, which is explaining why the records wii NOT be changed but will continue to offend some people today. Hooray for that! I’m sick and tired of people trying to erase people from history because they were people of their times. (For example, a couple years ago I visited Monticello and was astonished to find that Jefferson’s political career was barely mentioned. Instead, I was given the idea that the most important thing about him was that didn’t free his “enslaved persons” or had them.)

Here’s what the site actually says:
“ What harmful or difficult content may be found in the National Archives Catalog and our web pages?

Some items may:
reflect racist, sexist, ableist, misogynistic/misogynoir, and xenophobic opinions and attitudes;
be discriminatory towards or exclude diverse views on sexuality, gender, religion, and more;
include graphic content of historical events such as violent death, medical procedures, crime, wars/terrorist acts, natural disasters and more;
demonstrate bias and exclusion in institutional collecting and digitization policies.

Why does the National Archives make potentially harmful content available?

NARA’s mission is to preserve and provide access to the permanent records of the federal government. NARA, working in conjunction with diverse communities, will seek to balance the preservation of this history with sensitivity to how these materials are presented to and perceived by users.”

So they aren’t rewriting it, but trying to present it in a way that will avoid complaints. That makes sense.

They still need their pacifier.

If you think about it, the original archivists, by using the language of the day, reflect the attitudes of the day in their explanations of the laws and events they seek to shed light on, and by so doing, create yet another historical waypoint, to be further examined and explained in the light of more current sensibilities. The process never ends, nor should it, as long as we acknowledge the original attitudes, and don't try to pretend they never existed.

CRT at its best. That’s why statues coming down . Wipe out our history.

Glenn Beck did a piece on that issue yesterday. He reported that a few believe that the documents are too “offensive” to some and therefore should be replaced.
Come quickly Lord Jesus

Shame on this mess!

Your presentism approach to history conveniently ignores the profound impact that our founding principles had on the course of human kind. The type of inequities you describe had existed for several millennia throughout the world.

Our children should learn the good, bad and the ugly. But many only want to highlight the negative because what they truly despise is the rights enshrined in our Constitution that severely limits the power of our government.

Have you ever taken a moment and pondered on why billions of "people of color" dream of settling in the US? It is because the values of our founding took root and help eliminate the injustices that you obsess over not only in our country but in many others.

America isn't perfect. But the principles we hold dear are perfect. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that even on our worst day, we are blessed to live in America.

Nikki Haley

Statues
 

Removing the idolatry and glorifying of traitors of our country is not rewriting history. It’s just appropriate. You don’t go to Germany and see glorifying statues in parks of Nazi generals. Allowing glorification of traitors that wanted to take over our country has allowed the “participation award” to the loser mindset to develop. It was the ultimate participation award of our past.

Thank you so much for that summary.

There was an interesting column written about McCarthy - but much more broadly about whether anything McCarthy was trumpeting at the time had any truth to it insofar as the left side of politics was concerned. It was written in the Washington Post in 1996 by the late Nicholas von Hoffman, and titled "Was McCarthy right about the left?"

von Hoffman was no friend of right-wingers, and he wrote what he believed. His words ended up getting him fired from CBS's 60 Minutes, actually, when he referred to Nixon as "a dead mouse on the kitchen floor that everyone was afraid to touch and throw in the garbage.”

von Hoffman was a community organizer for Saul Alinksy in the early 60's. von Hoffman was a left-winger, to be sure.

OK, back to the column -

von Hoffman found nothing redeeming in McCarthy's behavior. Here's how he characterized him:

There is a "but..." here, though. The next passage from von Hoffman reads this way:

Last summary:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-5f352acbf5de/

Kind of like removing a Confederate statue in Lake county because some people are offended.

Kind of like the movie ratings we have today. It's simply a warning and if you're offended don't enter and read, just like this blog. I am amazed at the people that simply won't accept that there are other opinions in the world than theirs