Saturday, August 26, 2017

I Think It's Offensive and I Want it Taken Down

In keeping with the apparent mood of the day.
(Lisa Benson)  The sudden fascination with tearing down statues that were there for a decades is just today's version of this old standard, used by fascists or communists (like Antifa and Black Lives Matter) for centuries.   
There's a common misquote of George Santayana that goes, "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it".  To be honest, I like the misquote better than the original.  We can twist this to say, "those who prevent people from learning from the past are condemning themselves to repeat it."


3 comments:

  1. Yeah, but we're Old White Men, and we don't count in the new (P)regressive world!

    Doesn't matter that old greybeards like us made it all possible......

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  2. The progs want to feast on the (free) carcass of a nation without contributing to it. $20 trillion to them was not enough. X2 on what DRJIM wrote above.

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  3. "There's a common misquote of George Santayana that goes, 'Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it'."


    Those who fail History are condemned to repeat it next semester.

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