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Category: War on History

Aug 18 2022

Laying the Groundwork to Cancel John Wayne

John Wayne became an icon by emblematizing the rugged individualism that made America great. This is why he must be canceled. However, Wayne remains such a cultural giant that despite their efforts Democrats have not even managed to change the name of John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. A disgraceful event from Hollywood history may give them the pretext they need.

Via History.com:

On March 27, 1973, the actor Marlon Brando declines the Academy Award for Best Actor for his career-reviving performance in The Godfather. The Native American actress Sacheen Littlefeather attended the ceremony in Brando’s place, stating that the actor “very regretfully” could not accept the award, as he was protesting Hollywood’s portrayal of Native Americans in film.

What a posturing, sanctimonious jackass. Note that the award he threw back in Tinseltown’s face was granted to him for playing an Italian mobster. This is closer to a bigoted stereotype than Hollywood’s white-washed depiction of the horrific Stone Age barbarism prevailing in the wild West before it was tamed.

Having portrayed the sort of guy who tamed it has John Wayne in the crosshairs of the thought police:

While some cheered Littlefeather on, many others voiced their disagreement with what she was saying. Amongst them was Wayne, who regularly starred as a cowboy who was often at odds with Indigenous characters.

“During my presentation, he was coming towards me to forcibly take me off the stage, and he had to be restrained by six security men to prevent him from doing so,” Littlefeather told The Guardian in a 2021 interview that has resurfaced.

Whether this is an accurate depiction of the event is irrelevant. Who is going to call Sacheen Littlefeather a liar? That could get you canceled — which is the fate they have in mind for John Wayne.

Get classics like The Searchers on DVD while you still can.

Vintage gag-inducing political correctness.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Aug 16 2022

Liberal Agenda Applied Through Modern Art

To understand what leftism does to every institution it infiltrates, look to modern art, which succumbed to moonbattery long ago:

The escalation from passing trash off as art to using trash to deface real art exemplifies the malicious mentality of postmodernism. Critical Theory — prominently including our state religion under Democrat rule, Critical Race Theory — is an outgrowth of postmodernism (see the recommended book Cynical Theories for details).

Postmodernists seek to “deconstruct” — that is, to disfigure, desecrate, and destroy. Note that they do the same thing to children’s bodies by deconstructing gender.

The Culture War is total war. The losing side will be eradicated. If we lose, Thomas Picton will never have existed — and neither will any art worth looking at.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Aug 12 2022

Joan of Arc Was Now Nonbinary

Liberal social engineers cleverly make efficient use of their resources by waging their War on History and War on Women simultaneously. Joan of Arc was no longer who she was. She was no longer a woman. Now she was “nonbinary”:

If Anne Boleyn can be an African, why can’t Joan of Arc be a sexually deranged freakazoid?

The patron saint of France ought to be grateful. By the time moonbats are through bringing Western Civilization into line with woke ideology, the only alternative great historical figures have to transmogrification will be erasure.

George Orwell described how it works:

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”

If leftists remain in control of the present, we will have no past and no future.

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Aug 07 2022

Call for “Action” Against Mount Rushmore

The purpose of ESPN is to present leftism in the context of sports entertainment, so as to brainwash people who have no interest in politics. An audience is easier to manipulate when it expects only to be entertained, not to be indoctrinated. The moonbattery pushed by ESPN does not attempt to win arguments, but only to present a worldview that the audience is implicitly expected to share. This is the worldview of our liberal ruling class. It is hostile to American civilization, which progressives are in the process of eradicating.

Mount Rushmore is one of America’s most iconic monuments, featuring four of our greatest presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt. Liberals want these giants erased, so as to replace them with a new class of heroes, such as George Floyd, who will be apt representatives of the country they wish to create where America used to be.

To that end, ESPN’s Jalen Rose calls for the very words “Mount Rushmore” to be struck from the Newspeak Dictionary as unspeakable, and for his audience to “take action” against the monument:

There could be no more profound an enemy than we face in politically correct liberals. They want not only to conquer and destroy America, but to twist, defile, and erase its history, so that it will be as if our nation never existed. Compared to Jalen Rose and the liberal ruling class that provides him with a megaphone, our worst foreign adversaries are friends.

On tips from Varla and THE DEVIL WEARS A PRADA HAT.

Jul 19 2022

LGBT Bullies Attack Archeology

Leftists wage war on history because they want to impose their twisted ideology retroactively, not only on today’s world but also on the past. Their control of education and the media will allow them to accomplish this only after actual history has been discredited and erased. The extension of liberal ideology into the past now extends beyond history, into prehistoric times that we can observe only through archaeology — a field that has drawn the attention of LGBT bullies:

It is possible to determine whether a skeleton is from a biological male or female using objective observations based on the size and shape of the bones. …

But gender activists argue scientists cannot know how an ancient individual identified themselves.

“You might know the argument that the archaeologists who find your bones one day will assign you the same gender as you had at birth, so regardless of whether you transition, you can’t escape your assigned sex,” tweeted Canadian Master’s degree candidate Emma Palladino last week.

Moonbats don’t like being reminded that scientists will be able to dig up Will “Lia” Thomas’s bones 100,000 years from now and know that he was a man, regardless of whether he gets the NCAA Woman of the Year award.

Palladino says that using factual scientific information to assign gender to ancient humans is “bullsh**.”

For an indication of how far leftists have come in replacing history with their ideology, consider that Associate Professor Jennifer Raff of the University of Kansas …

…suggested scientists cannot know the gender of a 9,000 year-old biologically Peruvian hunter because they don’t know whether the hunter identified as male or female – a “duality” concept she says was “imposed by Christian colonizers.”

People that crazy are not just running around loose, evading the butterfly nets of the men in white coats; they are in charge.

Palladino and Raff demonstrate what can pass for science in a society dominated by progressives. As for what can pass for religion, Matt Walsh’s famous question “What is a woman?” made it to Senior Bishop Rt Rev Robert Innes of the Church of England. His answer:

“There is no official definition, which reflects the fact that until fairly recently definitions of this kind were thought to be self-evident, as reflected in the marriage liturgy.”

Fair enough. But then he started quacking about “complexities associated with gender identity.” He called for “additional care” in the use of controversial terms like woman.

Moonbattery is a jealous god. It does not tolerate the existence of anything, in any area of life, that does not comply with political correctness. The totalitarian mentality of our liberal ruling class is reducing civilization to a lunatic asylum without walls.

On tips from seaoh, Varla, Keith W, Franco, and Brian Brandt.

Jul 10 2022

Moonbats Defile Monticello

To destroy a nation, you have to turn it against its own heritage. You have to tear down its greatest heroes. This is why the Black Lives Matter riots prominently featured the destruction of statues of the Founding Fathers. It is why Monticello — long preserved as a shrine to the greatness of the author of the Declaration of Independence — is now being used by America’s enemies to propagandize against its creator Thomas Jefferson:

The new emphasis is the culmination of a 10-year effort to balance the historical record, officials of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the estate, have said.

But visitors complain that employees go out of their way to belittle Jefferson and his life.

Jefferson has been targeted for erasure on the grounds that he took part in a society that did not comply with 21st standards of political correctness. Like the rest of the landowners in 18th century Virginia, he had slaves.

Already his statue has been expelled from New York City Council by Bill de Blasio after nearly 2 centuries. Now they have transformed Monticello into a soapbox from which to denounce him, rendering the monument pointless.

The propaganda is executed with the subtlety we have come to expect of progressives. The ticket booth in the visitor’s center is “decorated with a contemporary painting of Jefferson’s weeping slaves.” Exhibits focus on Sally Hemings, a mixed race slave with whom Jefferson allegedly had children. If liberals prevail, this possibly fictional relationship is all that will be remembered about him.

Upon entering the mansion, visitors are confronted by a gigantic modern painting of a faceless black man. It was commissioned in honor of “Juneteenth.” Smirks Monticello guide Susan Woodward,

“It’s quite provocative, I do believe.”

The book shop features the excretions of proponents of critical race theory Ibram X. Kendi and Ta-Nehisi Coates. How provocative.

The message that Jefferson owned slaves and was therefore a bad man is ubiquitous. Visitors are also belligerently reminded that Monticello was built on land where sacred savages once roamed happy and free, before evil white people like Jefferson came to oppress them.

This will surprise no one:

The Thomas Jefferson Foundation is run by a roster of big-money Dem donors and former Democratic officials…

The foundation is chaired by Melody Barnes, former assistant to Barack Obama and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, who has griped in WaPo about all the nice things people say about that scoundrel Thomas Jefferson.

Allowing leftists to take over Monticello is like putting satanists in charge of the Vatican.

On tips from Bluto and Franco.

Jun 12 2022

Open Thread

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. - George Orwell

On a tip from Jester.

Apr 14 2022

Open Thread

A nation has a soul, a spiritual principle. One is in the past, the other in the present. One is the possession of a rich legacy of memories; the other is the desire to live together and to value the common heritage. - Ernest Renan

On a tip from THOUGHTCRIMINAL2084.

Jan 10 2022

Open Thread

In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let's call it,

Dec 10 2021

The Graceless Fate of Famous Robert E. Lee Statue

Among the reasons that losing the Culture War is unthinkable is that leftists have no grace.

Following the Civil War, the USA was able to heal and unite because, aside from the carpetbagging, the South was treated with respect. If Lee did not understand Lincoln and Grant to be honorable men like himself, he might have fought a guerilla campaign to the last man before surrendering.

There aren’t many honorable men among leftists these days. For the moment, they have the upper hand politically. They are pressing their advantage to both humiliate and erase anyone they perceive as an opponent of their ideology.

This is what the absolute absence of grace looks like:

The statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that drew violent protests to Charlottesville, Virginia, will be melted down and turned into a new piece of public art by an African American heritage center.

Nothing could be more obscenely ugly than modern public art.

Liberals shrieked in outrage that Donald Trump must be evil incarnate when he graciously said there were fine people on both sides of the issue regarding the Lee statue. They hold that there can only be one side: their own.

The city council decided how to dispose of the now-removed statue at the center of the Unite the Right rally in 2017 during a meeting that stretched into Tuesday morning, The Daily Progress reported.

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center will get its hands on the statue. Its executive director Andrea Douglas says that what they are going to do with it will “be more reflective of our entire community’s social values.” By the “entire community,” she means herself and those who are in lockstep with her ideology. Everyone else is a racist to be erased.

Barks Andrea,

“We’re giving people opportunities to engage with our own narratives and our own histories.”

They do this by erasing American history.

It didn’t take long for leftists to shift the focus of their hate from Robert E. Lee to the Founding Fathers and Christopher Columbus. We can only imagine what will be done with the statues of great men that Black Lives Matter and Antifa spent 2020 toppling and defacing with the liberal establishment’s approval.

On a tip from Brian Brandt.

Dec 04 2021

Anne Boleyn Was Now Black

The displacement of Caucasians in favor of more politically correct racial groups extends well beyond advertising. It even encroaches on the past. A three-part drama entitled Anne Boleyn will premiere on AMC+ this Thursday, with the starring role played by a black woman named Jodie Turner-Smith.

The reengineered history of Anne Boleyn has already aired in Britain on Channel 5.

Bleats series writer Eve Hedderwick Turner:

“Because it is such a well-known period of history and Anne’s story itself has been really well covered, we wanted to make sure that it felt fresh and alive and different. And also, reflective of our society today — so that hopefully we would attract new audiences who maybe didn’t see relevance in watching a story like this previously.”

Eve flatters the audience if she thinks most television viewers know all about Anne Boleyn. Most will come away from the series thinking she was beheaded in an act of racist oppression. Maybe that was the intention. People learn most of what they think they know about history from the entertainment industry. This is one reason it is so alarmingly powerful.

Anne’s brother George will also be played by a black person — just to keep things realistic.

There were approximately zero blacks in England when the now-erased white Anne Boleyn lost her head in 1536.

Presumably Henry VIII can keep his white skin, to go with his role as villain.

Meanwhile, liberal establishment platforms like the BBC and Los Angeles Times screech in self-righteous rage when white actors play nonwhite characters, even when it is nowhere near as jarringly incongruous as a black Anne Boleyn.

What Anne Boleyn now looked like.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Nov 29 2021

Notre Dame to Be Rebuilt as Woke Theme Park

In 2019, Notre Dame suffered a devastating fire, which had the hallmarks of Islamic outreach. Looks like it will not be restored so much as repurposed. A conspiracy to radically alter the external appearance has been thwarted, but the inside of the famous cathedral may never be the same:

Under the proposed changes, confessional boxes, altars and classical sculptures will be replaced with modern art murals, and new sound and light effects to create “emotional spaces”.

There will be themed chapels on a “discovery trail”, with an emphasis on Africa and Asia, while quotes from the Bible will be projected onto chapel walls in various languages, including Mandarin.

The final chapel on the trail will have a strong environmental emphasis.

“It’s as if Disney were entering Notre-Dame,” fumes Parisian architect Maurice Culot. “It’s a kind of theme park and very childish and trivial given the grandeur of the place.”

Notre Dame also sustained severe damage during the French Revolution, but afterward it was restored to its previous glory. Today’s ruling class wants only to revile and pervert Western history. The people in charge refuse to preserve our heritage, much less restore it.

Mohammad permitted churches to remain standing in regions conquered by his armies, but did not allow new ones to be built or old ones to be restored. In effect, his policy is still in force where Notre Dame is concerned.

On a tip from AintYerPa.

Nov 09 2021

Trains Denounced as Historically Racist

It isn’t just highways and bridges that are racist. Trains are historically racist. British moonbats and the taxpayers who support them can be thanked for bringing this crucial problem to light:

The National Railway Museum has teamed up with a consortium of universities to answer a burning historical question: were steam trains, used during Britain’s colonial age, linked with racism and slavery?

The Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York, together with the National Railway Museum, Network Rail, and three other museums in the North of England will spend £9,000 researching how steam power aided imperial expansion and profiteering during the Industrial Revolution.

The best thing that ever happened to the human race was the spread of European civilization, which more than doubled global life expectancy and has dramatically raised the standard of living throughout the world. This golden age of human history is denounced by leftists as “imperial expansion.” The radical improvement in living conditions is denounced as “profiteering.”

Leading the project, University of York archaeology Professor Jonathan Finch said that steam power was used heavily on colonial plantations, while steamboats transported products produced by slavery around the world. Steam trains, he added, “were critical to the expansion of colonial power across Asia and Africa, as well as the opening up of the North American interior,” while the profits of colonialism fueled further industrialisation back home in Britain.

One of the many things Asians and Africans should be grateful to the British Empire for is building railroads that provided the transportation infrastructure required to develop modern economies. Like settlement of mostly unpopulated North America, we are now told that this is something to be ashamed of.

The industrialization that makes it possible for us to do something with our lives other than subsistence farming is also bad, because according to leftist ideology, it offends the climate.

[S]taff at the Science Museum Group, of which the Railway Museum is part, have already been fretting over some of their exhibits and their links to slavery and colonialism in the climate of racial panic that followed last year’s Black Lives Matter protests.

Now they can feel good about themselves, because they are doing their part to help Black Lives Matter destroy civilization and reduce us to savages whose lives will be nasty, brutish, and short — as had always been the normal human condition prior to the blossoming of European civilization.

Most likely, the new research project will result in the museum-visiting public being met with messages about slavery and colonialism when they stop by the National Railway Museum.

According to leftism, we are evil and our history is evil. Social engineers destroy our history by twisting it against us. That is enabling them to destroy us. When we are gone, there will be utopia, as prevailed in Africa before the evil white man arrived.

On a tip from AintYerPa.

Oct 18 2021

Diversity Darling Alex Scott Learns Ancestors Owned Slaves

Kamala Harris is not the only moonbat who owes her high position to African ancestry and whose relatively recent ancestors owned slaves. The same goes for BBC diversity darling Alex Scott:

Go back far enough, and everyone has ancestors who owned slaves and other ancestors who were slaves. Slavery was a universal institution until Europeans all but ended it in the 19th century.

Manipulative liberal guilt trips notwithstanding, we are not our ancestors. We are us.

On tips from KirklesWorth and StephaneDumas.

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