Confederate General Robert E. Lee once said 'It is history that teaches us to hope', which explains why the Left is always itching to erase our history.
They don't want us to have hope and -- like all good little communists -- know that erasing history gives them carte blanche to rewrite that history to their liking.
It's Orwellian, but par for the course.
I've written about and opposed the removal of Confederate statues for precisely that reason. Those statues are part of our history, and we need to remember and learn from it.
And despite being called a racist and a Nazi for doing so, I insisted the removal of statues wouldn't stop with Confederate generals and memorials like the aforementioned Robert E. Lee. Far from it: that was just the trial balloon.
Having gotten away with removing and destroying Confederate statues the Left moved on like locusts to destroying other historical things in the name of 'tolerance' and 'anti-racism.'
Seriously: go visit Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and pay attention to how often slavery is mentioned (spoiler alert: it's a lot). Wokeness made sure Jefferson's accomplishments and contributions to America -- and there are many -- were all tainted by an association with slavery.
It was, frankly, exhausting.
Yet here's another major city set to 'reevaluate' it's statues and monuments because our 'values' have changed.
San Francisco is about to embark on evaluating its nearly 100 statues and monuments to figure out which ones no longer represent the city’s values and should be removed from view, relocated or re-interpreted with explanatory plaques. https://t.co/YZ44sdOJmk
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) August 28, 2024
San Francisco is about to begin evaluating its nearly 100 statues and monuments to figure out which ones no longer represent the city’s values and should be removed from view, relocated or reinterpreted with explanatory plaques.
The debate over the city’s monuments began in 2018 with the removal of the “Early Days” sculpture from the Pioneer Monument in Civic Center because it represented a Native American seated before a Spanish Catholic missionary. The effort gathered steam amid the racial justice movement in 2020 that followed the murder of George Floyd. That year, crowds toppled statues throughout the country that glorified Confederate Civil War leaders, which critics said paid homage to the country’s racist past.
The survey of San Francisco’s civic art collection — funded by a $3 million Mellon Foundation grant — will be conducted by an outside firm and should be completed by January.
'These statues no longer represent our values.'
To which I say: AND? They still existed, and -- as part of our collective history -- should not be erased.
Of course, given the so-called 'values' of San Francisco these days -- streets replete with human excrement, out of control crime, rampant homelessness, and corruption -- perhaps erasure of those values will be justified.
But I digress.
It's the height of ignorance and hubris to apply our contemporary values to history. Their values were not our values, necessarily, but it's wrong-headed and arrogant to think we can retroactively apply those our values to a different place and time.
History -- warts and all - is how we learn.
Good to hear the local governments have run out of important things to do and can now waste time on trivialities.
— Will Collier (@willcollier) August 29, 2024
This is what feckless political leaders do: come up with 'solutions' in search of a 'problem.'
As I said above -- literal s**t in the streets, drug addicts on every corner, and crime so bad businesses are leaving en masse -- but leaders will spend millions on a commission to remove statues.
Erasing History: How Rewrite the Past to Control the Future https://t.co/EBfzLUCR3P pic.twitter.com/hm1jI7uun1
— Homo Against Queer Theory (@Homonotqueer) August 31, 2024
It is the same mentality as the Taliban, frankly. Destroy history that 'offends' the Left sensibilities to rebuild a false history rooted in political agendas.
In a century, our descendants will likely decide our values are somehow incompatible with theirs. The Left may think their ideologies will reign supreme for generations to come, but we are none of us immortal.
We will die, and those who come after us will treat us with the same level of contempt and disrespect we've shown our forebears. Why? Because we have shown no regard for the history and the legacy of the past. We will not deserve to have our history, our values, our legacy live on after we're gone.
San Francisco proves that, beyond the shadow of a doubt.
