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Under DEI, the one who checks the most boxes gets the job. For an FAA air traffic controller under Biden that would be a blind one-armed paralyzed pyscho dwarf who is a lesbian and member of a minority group. Is that who you really want directing airplanes where to go at an airport? For me, I will take the most qualified person, not who checks the most DEI boxes.

Commented: Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 @ 7:36 am By: Rino Hunter

Based on your posts, I respectfully disagree.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:19 pm By: Big Bob

History can be told as 1) objective history, 2) slanted history that ignores inconvenient facts and glosses over things with generalizations, or 3) all out historical propaganda. Communist countries are noted for the last version, and that is certainly what one would get in communist Vietnam. The ideal standard for history in a democracy is objective history.

A slogan widely used by the communists has been "history is on our side" and the modern American far left has revised that slogan to become "the right side of history". Communists when they are in power constantly try to destroy and rewrite history. Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution is a prime example and one that seems to be the concept behand the American and European far left's cancel culture.

A good example of objective history is compare what a modern German student learns about World War II and what an American student learns. There is very little difference because both countries are democratic and, at least for now, tend to look at history objectively.

George Orwell has written extensively about how totalitarian regimes try to rewrite history in their drive to control the present and future. We are now seeing some of the things Orwell predicted being advanced by the far left in American and in Europe.

The middle point is slanted history, which sticks to facts but relies on selective facts to skew interpretations. A good example is the history of the War Between the States. Those writing from a northern perspective will leave out things like the Corwin Amendment and the Fremont Affair which call into question the basic northern narrative about the war and are therefore memory-holed. Similarly, there are things that one writing from a southern perspective would gloss over. Mildly slanted history is not so bad as the heavily slanted history that borders on pure propaganda.

I prefer objective history, but mildly slanted history is readable if one recognizes the slant they are being presented with.

When one gets to some of the left's distorted history like the 1619 Project, its authors are writing through a prism, not a lens.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By: Conservative Voter

Said the white man.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 2:21 pm By: Big Bob

There is no "white history" or "black history". There is simply only history.

Confederate history is also the history of many ethnic groups, like the highest ranking minority to serve in the war on either side, Confederate General Stand Watie, whose statue has been attacked by BLM/ANTIFA thugs. I would point out that the Yankees, in contrast, did not even let minorities serve as officers at any rank. Confederate heroes who distinguished themselves in battle include Moses Dallas, a black Confederate naval officer, who was instrumental in planning and helped lead one of the most daring exploits of the war, the capture of the Union warship USS Waterwitch while she was on blockade duty off Savannah in a surprise nighttime attack boarding from small boats. When the far left tries to cancel Confederate history, people like Watie and Dallas are among those they cancel.

That is also true of Confederate political history, where Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana became the first person of the Jewish religion to hold cabinet rank in a government this side of the Atlantic. Benjamin served in the cabinet of President Jefferson Davis throughout the war, successively as Secretary of State, Attorney General, and Secretary of War.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 12:25 pm By: Conservative Voter

We should never forget that it was RINO Greg Murphy who voted for the bill that led to this Maoist Cultural Revolution style attack on our history, including making Fort Bragg no longer Fort Bragg. "Cancel culture" Murphy needs to GO.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 11:54 am By: Rino Hunter

The modern-day cultural revolution purge going on throughout all of western civilization must end. Rational people must stand up and stop this insanity.

History is a rich tapestry of human stories. Totalitarian attempts to sanitize it to their own standards or to cancel it entirely only destroy it. When we stop building on our history, we stop enriching our culture. We ultimately commit cultural suicide.

This attack on West Point history and tradition is awful. People are now even considering taking down reconciliation monuments. Think about what that means.

Lately, in many countries people have destroyed monuments to James Cook of all people. Cook mapped more of the world than anyone. His voyages catalogued thousands of plants and animals and contributed greatly to mankind. During our own war for independence against Britian, Benjamin Franklin wrote to captains of colonial warships, recommending that if they came into contact with Cook's vessel (a British vessel), they were to "not consider her an enemy, nor suffer any plunder to be made of the effects contained in her...but that they treat the said Captain Cook with all the civility and kindness...as common friends to mankind."

Cook's work was that important to the human race, and he gave his life to make those contributions. Now in today's hate filled world, he is made to be a supposed villain to be erased from history.

As for me, no thank you to that totalitarian nightmarish vision of the world. Madness such as this must be opposed.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 10:10 am By: Charles Hickman

The white male president in the 1950's admired Robert E Lee. A real shocker.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:48 am By: Big Bob

How can you possibly forget that up until the 1950's the hiring preference in this country favored white men? Every idiot knows this to be true. I notice you often twist up the smallest of details to in an effort to justify your own ignorance while completely missing the point.

Unlike salvery - Jim Crow is on us.

Commented: Wednesday, May 1st, 2024 @ 9:42 am By: Big Bob

CV- I have zero respect for you.
go shoot a dog

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 9:01 pm By: Big Bob

No, it started in 1776 when only white men could get a paid job. Good lord. What a stuipis post.

Commented: Tuesday, April 30th, 2024 @ 8:40 pm By: Big Bob