Nelson gives the game away. Starts out saying it’s about slavery. Then somehow “harming ‘marginalized’ communities”. Then “white supremacy embedded in the outdoors “. In other words, embedded in everything everywhere, so tear it all down.
It’s a mass delusion he and millions have bought into. They are cultists. And they are winning.
Nelson gives the game away. Starts out saying it’s about slavery. Then somehow “harming ‘marginalized’ communities”. Then “white supremacy embedded in the outdoors “. In other words, embedded in everything everywhere, so tear it all down.
It’s a mass delusion he and millions have bought into. They are cultists. And they are winning.
I can see someone saying "this organization is named after someone who committed acts that we now find appalling, so let's change the name." I disagree with that, but I understand the argument.
Saying “white supremacy is embedded in the outdoors,“ on the other hand, marks you as a hyperbolic mal-educated idiot.
The problem is that those two arguments go hand in hand for Leftists.
Most of the powerful men in history (and many of the powerful women) did things we would now find appalling. Our Founders did things that their own contemporaries would have found appalling if those acts had been made public. One of the essential points of the musical Hamilton is that Hamilton was poised to be a likely candidate for POTUS, but he was no longer a viable candidate when he was forced into a position where he had to confess that he had cheated on his wife with another man's wife. That kind of thing could be done in private, but if it was made public, you were toast.
I'm old enough to remember when Gary Hart--a prospective Democrat POTUS candidate in 1988--had to drop out of the race because he had been seen on a yacht with a woman other than his wife. It was only the Democrats' reaction to Bill Clinton's sexual behavior that made it possible for a man to become POTUS if he did not at least *appear* to be respectable.
So the notion that we can look back in history and find people so free of flaws that no one will ever find any aspect of their behavior appalling at some future point is absurd. Nor do Democrats actually care about bad behavior if the person they want to honor has the right credentials (witness the deification of George Floyd).
The Left's desire to eliminate the names of men who, despite having done tremendous things for our country, were (like many men of their time) slaveholders does not stop with a name like Audubon. These people want to get rid of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
I think most of us assumed that, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Marxism/Communism was no longer a threat. But the Long Marchers were still marching, and they didn't give up on Marxism.
I only vaguely knew anything about the Chinese Cultural Revolution until the past decade. It seemed irrelevant to the West that the Chinese discovered the hard way that authoritarian social engineering based on utopian fantasy instead of science would be disastrous.
But these Leftists seem incapable of (or unwilling to) learn from history. They are True Believers and nothing will shake their Faith.
Nelson gives the game away. Starts out saying it’s about slavery. Then somehow “harming ‘marginalized’ communities”. Then “white supremacy embedded in the outdoors “. In other words, embedded in everything everywhere, so tear it all down.
It’s a mass delusion he and millions have bought into. They are cultists. And they are winning.
Leftist buzzword bingo. They can't help themselves.
I can see someone saying "this organization is named after someone who committed acts that we now find appalling, so let's change the name." I disagree with that, but I understand the argument.
Saying “white supremacy is embedded in the outdoors,“ on the other hand, marks you as a hyperbolic mal-educated idiot.
The problem is that those two arguments go hand in hand for Leftists.
Most of the powerful men in history (and many of the powerful women) did things we would now find appalling. Our Founders did things that their own contemporaries would have found appalling if those acts had been made public. One of the essential points of the musical Hamilton is that Hamilton was poised to be a likely candidate for POTUS, but he was no longer a viable candidate when he was forced into a position where he had to confess that he had cheated on his wife with another man's wife. That kind of thing could be done in private, but if it was made public, you were toast.
I'm old enough to remember when Gary Hart--a prospective Democrat POTUS candidate in 1988--had to drop out of the race because he had been seen on a yacht with a woman other than his wife. It was only the Democrats' reaction to Bill Clinton's sexual behavior that made it possible for a man to become POTUS if he did not at least *appear* to be respectable.
So the notion that we can look back in history and find people so free of flaws that no one will ever find any aspect of their behavior appalling at some future point is absurd. Nor do Democrats actually care about bad behavior if the person they want to honor has the right credentials (witness the deification of George Floyd).
The Left's desire to eliminate the names of men who, despite having done tremendous things for our country, were (like many men of their time) slaveholders does not stop with a name like Audubon. These people want to get rid of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
Agreed. There's a lot less "let's rebrand to be more neutral" and a lot more "destroy the Four Olds" in all of this.
(BTW, did we ever think we'd be needing to learn so much about the Chinese Cultural Revolution?)
I think most of us assumed that, with the fall of the Soviet Union, Marxism/Communism was no longer a threat. But the Long Marchers were still marching, and they didn't give up on Marxism.
I only vaguely knew anything about the Chinese Cultural Revolution until the past decade. It seemed irrelevant to the West that the Chinese discovered the hard way that authoritarian social engineering based on utopian fantasy instead of science would be disastrous.
But these Leftists seem incapable of (or unwilling to) learn from history. They are True Believers and nothing will shake their Faith.
Totalitarians gonna totalitarian.