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."
Yeah, but we're Old White Men, and we don't count in the new (P)regressive world!
ReplyDeleteDoesn't matter that old greybeards like us made it all possible......
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.
ReplyDelete"There's a common misquote of George Santayana that goes, 'Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it'."
ReplyDeleteThose who fail History are condemned to repeat it next semester.