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Today, in stupidity....
Feb. 6th, 2015 08:30 amhttp://news.yahoo.com/war-memorial-separates-dead-race-divides-southern-city-094144917.html
"I think if history offends people it needs to be rewritten if possible," Adams said.
WHAT? Historical revisionism based on what's "offensive"? Offensive to whom?
History isn't offensive, it's simply what HAPPENED. Changing that to suit contemporary tastes is the worst kind of idiocy. If we remove things that offend us, then we remove, from history, the causes that lead to the struggles that make the world what it is now. If we remove those causes from sight, then we render the struggles themselves motiveless, and therefore meaningless.
"I think if history offends people it needs to be rewritten if possible," Adams said.
WHAT? Historical revisionism based on what's "offensive"? Offensive to whom?
History isn't offensive, it's simply what HAPPENED. Changing that to suit contemporary tastes is the worst kind of idiocy. If we remove things that offend us, then we remove, from history, the causes that lead to the struggles that make the world what it is now. If we remove those causes from sight, then we render the struggles themselves motiveless, and therefore meaningless.