Why is educating about Tubman bad?

[martin]

It isn't, but it does in a sense, deify one minor player in a much bigger part of history. The Left likes to do this, find a single person that fits their dogma and then anoint them as the be-all, end-all of something. It's like they grant sainthood to them. All others are ignored. It's a perversion of history.

As another example of this, compare Rosa Parks who did nothing other than object to changing seats and getting arrested to ZERO change in anything to Elizabeth Jennings who got similar treatment on the NYC trolly system of her time and subsequently won in court and got the system desegregated.

The Left loves Parks because she's a nothing who resisted futilely. The Left hates Jennings because she was an intelligent, well-educated, and successful woman from an upper middle-class family who successfully fought the system using the existing rules.

Americans who aren't bigots respond to the single event story of Rosa Parks just as they do to the single event story of Nathan Hale.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

When they took down Traitor to the United States Robert E. Lee the fuckers had an attack.

A real hero, Harriet Tubman should be celebrated.

IMO, both should be taught as heroes. Labeling Robert E. Lee as a traitor is as divisive as what the MAGAts are doing to DEI.

 

[Phantasmal]

We should agree to disagree on this point.

Agreed on education as the way forward. Not all of them, but I agree there are white supremacists AKA racist assholes who do, indeed, seek to pervert the present with a misrepresentation of the past. Specifically in the area of white supremacy.

What poll?

I’d don’t recall, it was conducted during Felonious’ first term when this was an issue.

 

[Lionfish]

White nationalists, pedophiles and MAGAts hate uppity black women.

And Mr. Tiny Penis the CEO of my fan club, wants to shoot Republicans.

 

[Lionfish]

No one is trying to erase anything... Did you read the article??

The receptionist doesn't read and apparently lets the phones go ringing.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I think Confederate generals belong in history books, not in public monuments.

Monuments are making a statement. Its a public declaration of who we find worthwhile of our respect and veneration. That's exactly why Lithuanians, Estonians, and Ukrainians pulled down all the monuments of Lenin.

Conquered people's pulling down statues of their conquerors while understandable are destroying their history. Better, IMO, to put the history in context and put up other monuments around it in order to learn from it.

George Santayana famously wrote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". By destroying the past, people set themselves on a path to repeat it. This is why I favor educating people about both the past and how it contextually fits in the present.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

And Mr. Tiny Penis the CEO of my fan club, wants to shoot Republicans.

Oh Miss Piggy. Everyone can see who's the CEO of a fan club. It's found in their signatures.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

I’d don’t recall, it was conducted during Felonious’ first term when this was an issue.

There's lots of polls. Some more legitimate than others.

IMO, we can't get rid of racism by being racist and we can't get rid of divisiveness by being divisive.

 

[TOP]

The receptionist doesn't read and apparently lets the phones go ringing.

I'm beginning to wonder... With the way some of these people post around here, I'm Sometimes leary if any of them really are professionals tgry claim to be..... Who would jeopardize a legitimate career... Or even a former career... by posting some of the things that they do?

 

[Lionfish]

Traditionally, there were undoubtedly more monuments to Confederate generals in the South than to black abolitionists and civil rights leaders.

So?

 

[Lionfish]

Patron Saint of Fentanyl

 

[Truth Detector]

Memorials to losers isn’t healing, and if you know why monuments were put into place, it solidifies that doing away with them is the right decision.

Mentally unhinged leftists hate history. They hate education. They hate facts. They hate America.

 

[Truth Detector]

1. Calling them losers is part of the problem. It only fosters resentment in addition to neglecting history.
2. I understand why the monuments were put up. My point is that by burying them, it's akin to the Soviets and PRC trying to stamp out religion or the US War on Drugs. All it does is drive it underground.
3. You can't force people to change their thoughts. IMO, education, especially teaching tolerance, is the better path forward.

Brainless leftist loon thinks he is educated.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

 

[Truth Detector]

When they took down Traitor to the United States Robert E. Lee the fuckers had an attack.

Did that trigger you? You should self deport. Or, better yet, kill yourself.

A real hero, Harriet Tubman should be celebrated.

She has been you brainless dumbass.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

 

[Truth Detector]

They are losers and traitors.

I see educating people to that fact is the way forward, but the very people who wish to retain the statues also wish to do away with teaching the true history.

The majority of people polled wanted action on the monuments. The disagreement was on whether to destroy them or move them.

 

[Truth Detector]

And all those confederate generals were Dummycrats.

Indeed, they were. They were also the ones burning crosses in yards and lynching blacks.

 

[Truth Detector]

I think Confederate generals belong in history books, not in public monuments.

Monuments are making a statement. Its a public declaration of who we find worthwhile of our respect and veneration. That's exactly why Lithuanians, Estonians, and Ukrainians pulled down all the monuments of Lenin.

You don't think assclown, you emote and say stupid shit.

 

[Truth Detector]

We should agree to disagree on this point.

Agreed on education as the way forward. Not all of them, but I agree there are white supremacists AKA racist assholes who do, indeed, seek to pervert the present with a misrepresentation of the past. Specifically in the area of white supremacy.

What poll?