Open Thread

Insurrection plus crimes against history. On tips from Jester and WDS 2.0.

George Washington Was a Terrorist per Texas Schools

As George Orwell predicted,

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

To erase the heritage that defines America, leftists teach lies in public schools.

Julie Pickren, a member of the State Board of Education, blows the whistle regarding indoctrination children will receive in Texas:

She says the materials refer to our first president and Founding Father as a “terrorist leader.” American troops during the Revolutionary War were deemed to also be terrorists.

Pickren alerted her followers on social media that the course teaches that “Christian missionaries kidnapped Indian children and sent them to re-education camps to become Americans and Christians.” The lessons also allege that “Congress paid U.S. soldiers to scalp Indians.”

This being Texas, Republicans hold a 10-5 majority on the board.

However, four Republicans joined Democrats to pass the curriculum.

Anyone surprised by this must not be aware that allegedly Republican Senator John Cornyn introduced legislation to make historically inaccurate “Juneteenth” (a.k.a. George Floyd Day) a national holiday. The US Senate approved this disgusting outrage unanimously.

Another quote comes to mind:

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

On a tip from R F.

Shakespeare Slated for Decolonization

If moonbats prevail, future Britons will no longer have the IQ to produce another William Shakespeare. But at least no one can take the Bard of Avon away from them — unless he gets canceled for being Caucasian:

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which owns his homes and some archival material linked to his birth, has been urged to “purge” its vast collections “of Anglocentric and colonialist thought”.

After academics raised concerns that venerating the writer could promote white supremacy, the trust has agreed to “create a more inclusive museum experience”.

Materials the museum is entrusted to preserve may be in danger:

The trust, which was established in 1847, has stated that the historical materials it holds may represent “values and stereotypes that are not consistent with the current values and practices” of its organisation. It has warned those who view its manuscripts and artefacts that they “may encounter language or depictions that are racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harmful”.

How long tolerant liberals will allow the preservation of such manuscripts and artifacts remains to be seen.

The trust’s collections risk showcasing European culture as the world standard for high art, the project said, which was pushed through “colonial inculcation” and the use of Shakespeare as a symbol of “British cultural superiority”.

How dare people take pride in their culture? Wokeness requires them to despise their traditions and history, and to replace their culture with something no one could take pride in.

The museum denounces pride in Shakespeare’s greatness as “epistemic violence” that contributes to problematically “Anglocentric, Eurocentric, and increasingly ‘West-centric’ worldviews.”

King Lear's blind Gloucester could see where this is heading. Shakespeare himself committed the ultimate act of racism by being European. Unless he is retroactively transracialized into an African immigrant, he will need to be — as another English author might put it — vaporized.

On a tip from Franco.

Democrats Admit Why They Erased Henry Hyde

Even as names erased as part of their War on History begin to be restored, Democrats continue to cancel the disfavored dead.

From suburban Chicago’s Daily Herald:

The courthouse [in Wheaton] became the Henry J. Hyde Judicial Office Facility in 2010, three years after the Republican lawmaker from Wood Dale died at 83 years old.

[DuPage] County [Illinois] board members voted 10-5 along party lines to remove Hyde’s name from the building.

Here’s why tolerant liberals want to inflict postmortem punishment on Hyde, even though he shared their hostility to gun rights:

Republicans strongly opposed the decision. But the resolution was supported by Democrats, who referenced the Hyde Amendment, legislation introduced by Hyde in 1976 to block the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, with some exceptions.

Democrats want you to be forced to pay for other people to kill their own children, thereby making you morally complicit in genocide to the extent that you agree to live under the US Government. Hyde will not be forgiven for having the decency to stand in their way.

Explicitly referencing the Hyde Amendment, Democrat DuPage County Board Chair Deborah Conroy crowed:

“I believe our actions should reflect our values.”

That they do. Again we are reminded that the Democratic Party goes well beyond merely being wrong.

On a tip from Franco.

Fort Bragg Restored

History matters, because it forms our national identity. That’s why liberals have been erasing it. But with pro-Americans in charge, history is being restored.

Mount McKinley is Mount McKinley again, named after US President William McKinley, thanks to an executive order by Donald Trump. Now this:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed an order Monday restoring the name of a storied special operations forces base back to Fort Bragg. The North Carolina base was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023 as part of a national effort under the Biden administration to remove names that honored Confederate leaders.

If Confederates thought they would be erased without due respect, they might have fought to the last man. In Civil War times, Americans were honorable on both sides. Due to the moral decay that has become institutionalized in the Democratic Party, this is no longer the case. Fortunately, like the Biden Regime’s name for Fort Bragg, the decay can be reversed.

On a tip from Anonymous.

Hollywood Makes Russians Black

To get an idea of how far the liberal establishment wants to divorce us from reality, consider that they want us to believe blacks were prevalent in revolutionary Russia:

At least they won’t make genocidal fiends like Lenin and Stalin black. That would be racist. Then again, they might redefine Lenin and Stalin as the good guys.

Moonbats control not only Tinseltown but also the schools. Imagine what kids are being taught in history class.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth. - George Orwell

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Resistance to Biden’s Gaslighting on “Garbage” Insult

Bureaucrats and journalists are at the core of the Democrat power base, but even some of them are appalled by the regime’s attempt to erase Joe Biden’s ill-timed pre-election proclamation that half the American population consists of “garbage.”

Via AP of all people:

White House press officials altered the official transcript of a call in which President Joe Biden appeared to take a swipe at supporters of Donald Trump, drawing objections from the federal workers who document such remarks for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

“Appeared to take a swipe”? Biden called us garbage. But at least this wording is better than Norah O’Donnell’s lie that the insult was hissed “inadvertently.”

Quoth Biden:

“The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump’s] supporters.”

What didn’t float with the public was Biden’s nasty insult, which called to mind the bitter clingers jab by Obama and Shrillary’s “basket of deplorables.” So,

The transcript released by the White House press office … rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading “supporter’s” rather than “supporters,” which aides said pointed to Biden criticizing [Trump rally comedian Tony] Hinchcliffe, not the millions of Americans who are supporting Trump for president. …

[A supervisor] called the press office’s handling of the matter “a breach of protocol and spoliation of transcript integrity between the Stenography and Press Offices.”

Meanwhile, Trump exploited Biden’s bile masterfully. As for House Republicans:

Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., on Wednesday accused White House staff of “releasing a false transcript” of Biden’s remarks. …

Stefanik and Comer said the action could be in violation of the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

Joe Biden broke the law? Say it’s not so.

Putting up a fight over the apostrophe is worthwhile, because it represents a line that must not be crossed. “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth,” predicted George Orwell. If his prediction comes true, we will have absolute tyranny.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

English Universities Abolish Anglo-Saxons

The self-hatred at the core of leftism has reached such an extreme in academia that the University of Nottingham is erasing Anglo-Saxons — a.k.a. people who are ethnically English — from English history. File this one under cultural genocide:

[I]n a move to “decolonise the curriculum”, professors have renamed a masters course in Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies as Viking and Early Medieval English Studies.

To “decolonize” is to purge of Western Civilization, which is regarded as unholy in the moonbat religion.

The university has also said it is seeking to “problematize the term ‘Viking’”…

You can see why Google’s AI pretends Vikings were of African ancestry.

The stated objective is to suppress “nationalist narratives.” To take pride in English civilization is thoughtcrime.

It isn’t only English academics who want to purge the English from history.

It follows a similar move in the United States, where academics in particular have campaigned against the term “Anglo-Saxon” because it suggests a distinct, native Englishness.

There is no such thing as Englishness, just as there is no such thing as a woman.

The terminology of “Early mediaeval England” is the preferred replacement for “Anglo-Saxon” by academics concerned that the latter has become a phrase used by racists surrounding white identity.

A racist is a white person who doesn’t like it that the ruling class wants them not to exist.

In 2023, it was revealed that the University of Cambridge, home to a leading Anglo-Saxon department, was teaching students that Anglo-Saxons did not exist as a distinct ethnic group as part of efforts to undermine “myths of nationalism”.

Next social engineers will claim there is no such thing as Caucasians — because saying it is a step toward making it true.

The [insanity at University of Nottingham] follows a pledge made in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests to decolonise the curriculum, a term denoting a move away from Western-centred material and the dominance of “white voices” in academia.

We certainly wouldn’t want white voices heard in a place like England — which will probably see a name change to New Jamaica in the foreseeable future.

It would be impossible to overstate the perniciousness of ivory tower leftists. Entrusting them as the custodians of Western history and heritage is like putting pedophiles in charge of schools and children’s entertainment.

Hopefully the communist Chinese are keeping records of European history, so that it won’t be forgotten entirely.

On a tip from Barry A.