What do you guys think of the protesters tearing down the statues? They seem to be tearing down a lot of them, not just the Confederate statues but other historical figures like Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt.
I have a theory on this and would like to hear what you think. I think there is a general anger at the way things are right now. Not just racially, but economically and politically as well. People are seeing the flaws in the system and coming to understand they've been sold a false bill of goods. This relates to the statues because people are coming to understand just how much of what they've been taught in school was a lie. That people like the Founding Fathers weren't these perfect pillars of fairness and democracy, but men who held views that were normal for the time but fairly abhorrent nowadays. They were normal, flawed people, but the system held them up to be more than they were for the sake of creating a national mythology. Now people are rejecting that mythology.
Conservatives say that the protesters are destroying our history, but it is really the fact that the real history has been hidden is the source of this anger. That is my opinion. What do you think?
I have a theory on this and would like to hear what you think. I think there is a general anger at the way things are right now. Not just racially, but economically and politically as well. People are seeing the flaws in the system and coming to understand they've been sold a false bill of goods. This relates to the statues because people are coming to understand just how much of what they've been taught in school was a lie. That people like the Founding Fathers weren't these perfect pillars of fairness and democracy, but men who held views that were normal for the time but fairly abhorrent nowadays. They were normal, flawed people, but the system held them up to be more than they were for the sake of creating a national mythology. Now people are rejecting that mythology.
Conservatives say that the protesters are destroying our history, but it is really the fact that the real history has been hidden is the source of this anger. That is my opinion. What do you think?