Rewriting, Washing, Scrubbing American Culture

[tapintoamerica]

No, it isn't. One does not have to provide a "cultural right" disclaimer, well, in any case, but particularly not in a thread that's not about an encounter with the cultural right.

And, at any rate, I am not a member of the old cultural right - I rolled my eyes at Tipper Gore and the fire-and-brimstone televangelists - or certainly the new cultural right, personified by Glenn Beck breaking down in tears or the embarrashing Ben Shapiro review of a Barbie movie directed by someone far smarter than he is.

I am saying that the fallout of Trump - and the way social media amplified grievance and apocalypse - has moved the cultural left away from the middle finger to the establishment. The new left is engaged in syncretism that will rival the strains of "American Christianity" that hurt the church. (And America.)

So it's the fault of libruhls for opposing Trump? Their divisive rhetoric will hurt the country?

 

[tapintoamerica]

The switch has been flipped to "maybe it shouldn't."

Your klan is going to get what it wants out of this deal. The libruhls will leave. Either they will be replaced by bigots or the New College of Florida will close. Win for your boy in the governor's mansion.

 

[Alma]

Your klan is going to get what it wants out of this deal. The libruhls will leave. Either they will be replaced by bigots or the New College of Florida will close. Win for your boy in the governor's mansion.

I think DeSantis is silly.

 

[Alma]

So it's the fault of libruhls for opposing Trump? Their divisive rhetoric will hurt the country?

I didn't write any of those things. I wrote exactly what I wrote.

 

[Azrael]

Well, Florida's official, government-mandated revisionism and censorship certainly argue against the notion that the real threat to language and meaning comes from the 'new cultural left' . . . rather then the old-timey fascist right.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Yes, but we're talking about what the left might do, not what the right is doing as we speak. Besides, everyone is talking about what the right is doing.

 

[Azrael]

Makes you wonder what conservatives are trying to conserve.

 

[DanOregon]

There is this weird idea in some quarters that "history" is only meant to celebrate whatever it is covering. Nope. Some history sucks. People made some seriously immoral choices. It is what it is.

 

[BTExpress]

Wonder if Ida Bae Wells is doing any examination of Native American history standards.

 

[Azrael]

https://americanindian.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/seminars-symposia/the-other-slavery-perspective.pdf

https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-us/

https://www.oah.org/tah/native-amer...e-vexing-question-of-righting-historys-wrong/

 

[Azrael]

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

This isn't it no matter how many times you try to smartly say it.

It is, though.