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Wednesday, January 05, 2022

The Ungracious—and Their Demonization of the Past

The last two years have seen an unprecedented escalation in a decades-long war on the American past. 

But there are lots of logical flaws in attacking prior generations in U.S. history.

Critics assume their own judgmental generation is morally superior to those of the past. So, they use their own standards to condemn the mute dead who supposedly do not measure up to them.

Yet 21st century critics rarely acknowledge their own present affluence and leisure owe much to history’s prior generations whose toil helped create their current comfort.

7 comments:

  1. A society with no past has no future. Destruction of our past is just a part of the lefts ongoing war to destroy us and our freedom .

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  2. "Critics assume their own judgmental generation is morally superior to those of the past."
    This needs a correction, which I am glad to make for you:
    "Democrats assume their own judgment is morally superior to anyone."

    You're welcome.

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    1. Because the Republicans are paragons of virtue!

      Time to open at least one eye, just a bit, and see that both are demonic.

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    2. I don't know anyone who thinks Republicans are paragons of virtue. For as long as I can remember, they have been referred to as National Socialists, Fascists, and multiple other unflattering things -- by people who do consider the Democratic (sic) Party to be a paragon of virtue. Popular television shows will refer to the one party as Repulicunts, but I have yet to hear anything derogatory in main stream media on that level against the Democratic (sic) Party.

      Just because I denounce Bernie Madoff as a thieving sleaze bag, doesn't mean that I'm suddenly endorsing Hillary as the next Mother Theresa.

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  3. take for example the civil war,
    the victors write their own history, not the truth.

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  4. How can we reach the Glorious Socialist Utopia without ridding ourselves of the Four Olds, comrades?
    - The Government

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  5. Look, and with all due respect, as a foreigner … Hollywood and the American media, academia, establishment, etc. has ‘always’ played fast and loose with the truth about history. It’s just that now they’ve decided to turn, what till recently has been (whitewashing, manipulation and complete fabrication) lies-in-your-favour, against you for a change.

    The vast majority, though thankfully not all, honestly do get their entire knowledge of history from whichever blockbuster they just watched.

    So what changed? The lies-in-your-favour propaganda was because, despite being corrupt, lying, mercenary, paedophile scum, they at least still viewed themselves as American.

    Now? Not so much.

    (As an outsider I find it, to an extent, a little schadenfreudelicious to watch so many Americans complaining bitterly about Chinese spying, theft of tech, bribery, purchasing companies and strategic industries, and blatant propaganda in films when … they’re just following ‘your’ play-book.

    Hardly anybody, except LIV idiots, ‘hates’ Americans, they ‘hate’ the establishment that you were all too happy to laud when they were ‘stroking your egos’ when you should have seen them for what they were from the start).

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