Posted on Jul 25, 2020
Sierra Club Grapples With Founder John Muir’s Racism
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Was John Muir racist or merely a product of his time? Is it "fair" to judge a person long dead by contemporary standards or was Shakespeare merely stating the obvious "The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones" in his play "Julius Caesar"
Was John Muir racist or merely a product of his time? Is it "fair" to judge a person long dead by contemporary standards or was Shakespeare merely stating the obvious "The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones" in his play "Julius Caesar"
Sierra Club Grapples With Founder John Muir’s Racism
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We would be much better off as a people/society, if we understood there were different standards and norms throughout history. Judging people by today's standards, is foolish, and unfair since they can't defend themselves.
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I really don't care what an organization did decades ago. What is it doing now? But if the cancel culture wants what the cancel culture wants, maybe we should all drop a 55 gallon drum of toxic waste in the nearest water shed, to atone for John Muir. Would that set things to right?
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I believe that is what is happening today, people can't let the dead alone, what was done in their time, was done then, let them rest in peace.
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