Destroying History

[Theowl32]

This country will look very different in a couple of generations. Those who don't think much of it will see to that.

Yeah we know you dick

 

[Theowl32]

Is there anything the left doesn't want to ban and silence?

Themselves

 

[BluesLegend]

Is there anything the left doesn't want to ban and silence?

Themselves

It used to be a joke but now, the left are behaving a lot like the Nazi's.

 

[Mac1958]

This country will look very different in a couple of generations. Those who don't think much of it will see to that.

Yeah we know you dick

And they're tremendously fortunate to have people like you as their "opponents".
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[OldLady]

Monuments are not history, they are a way of honoring people or ideas. I can see how people who never really read a book would think that history lives in stone and bronze but at best they are history distorted. The founders were fine men of their times but apart from the remarkable ideals they fought for I cannot bring myself to care that much about the deification of mere men. The ideas are what I care about and those can only be found in books and minds. The final word on what monuments are can be found here:

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1792-1822

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

IMHO, Jefferson's ideas WERE remarkable and should continue to be honored. He was raised and remained a slave owner of vast plantations. He did not believe blacks were equal to whites, yet he knew slavery was a huge hypocritical stain on new country's ideals. It is what it is. He was a man of his time, one of the landed gentry. His views on blacks was not peculiar to him. It should not take away from what he accomplished and his remarkable ideas.

I totally understand the "man of his times" argument and accept it but it matters that he was a slave owner when we go to honor any man.

No one is honoring him for how many slaves he owned but I do understand that side of the argument, as well. I guess it is each person's decision which should be more important.

Love Ozymandias, btw. Thanks.

 

[OldLady]

It says right in the article that he does not think we should erase him from the history books just quit naming things after him, directly contradicting the title. I don't care either way but this is a good example of why Fox news sucks balls.

The point is to diminish the stature of the Founders because 18th Century thinking does not fall in line with the "enlightened" nonsense of our modern day Democrats, and all that will need to be swept away, Taliban-like, prior to any attempt to enforce their socialist utopian dream.

For those see these men as divine prophets sent down from on high with the true last word on human governance they need to be diminished to the mere humans they were.

Their plan has worked pretty well so far. It even settled the atrocious issue of slavery, after awhile. And it continues to work toward rectifying that miserable legacy. Not a bad plan. I don't think anyone sees the founding fathers as "divine prophets;" they gave us a system of governance that allowed us to change with the times. And we have.