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Who is rewriting history? The right, by actually rewriting the textbooks on the Civil War. And yet you don't see leftists clogging up the front page with stories on that despite how much more significant they are than some high school changing a line of a song. And of course its telling that the actual rewriting of history isn't what the right is worried about.It's a non-story from your perspective. But most people are not willing to stand for the educational system enabling radical ideologies to influence 5-year old children and their development into adults.
I do not see how monuments put up in the Jim Crow era, differ from monuments put up in the Civil War era. Is it inconvenient for the city to keep displaying these monuments in public? Sure, that's precisely why they should continue to be displayed.
It is not up to the later generations to decide what is a convenient part of history that ought to be kept, and what is not. What happened is what happened.
We can feed into the impulse of people's emotional fragility regarding historical subjects, and continue the removal of monuments that offend their delicate sensibilities, and see where it is going to get us, at the end of the day. Were these monuments put up as an attempt to re-write history? Perhaps they were, but I do not see any sense in reacting to this by attempting re-write history again.
The period when Southern people believed in the "Lost Cause" is now also a part of America's historical legacy.
So your initial statement
is not true because its implying the stories the right are zeroing in on are equivalent to the Charlottesville one. If we're talking about Islamist terror attacks then they are but rips thread on a high school band or the thread on 1st grader getting punished aren't even close to being in the same league. But I bet you knew this.There just happens to be more of it for the right-wing side.
But the last time there was any left-wing outrage porn (1 dead at a protest), the thread went forever.
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