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http:// https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2022/12/22/west-point-is-removing-confederate-symbols-from-campus/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=army-dnr
West Point is Removing Confederate Symbols from Campus
West Point is Removing Confederate Symbols from Campus
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I thought the military might recognize the importance of history more than they do. I still had a touch of faith in people. Guess I was wrong.
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Erasing the past to accommodate the "flavor of the month" in historical interpretation is a very bad idea. Toppling statues and changing the names of military bases doers not change the past. This is exactly the same as Stalin removing the images of his hated rivals from contemporary photographs to support his "revisionist history", a fiction that Stalin invented to make himself look like the Soviet Superman. All of his contemporaries knew it was a lie, but anyone who said anything was killed. Now we've sunk to that level in America, to try to pretend that the Civil War didn't happen or that everyone who fought for the South was an evil slave-trading traitor. Life isn't just black and white, there are MANY different hues and shades of gray.
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Remember, being progressive means remembering only certain parts of history. The history progressives don't like is changed or dumped in the trash.
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MAJ Hugh Blanchard
When I was in college, we hosted a group of Russian grad students visiting New Orleans. Over a beer or two in the Tulane Rathskeller we talked about history. They had knowledge of all sorts of what I characterized as really obscure events in American history, mostly dealing with far left politics. To them, these events were very important because they supported their narrative. To me, I had not heard of many of the events at all. The same kind of thing is going on in many colleges where the students are being fed a diet of "woke" BS by far-left professors. I'll give them high marks for endurance, these far-left academics never stop agitating for socialism.
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