I found that pushback works.
Philadelphia's Welcome Park do not have In the words of the National Park Service, it requires “rehabilitation.” Federal agencies are announced It would remove the statue of Pennsylvania's namesake William Penn, which had stood in Philadelphia's Welcome Park since 1982.
The problem is that Penn was a slave owner in the 1600s. That one fact erases everything else about Penn's role in Pennsylvania history.
But Pennsylvanians pushed back. The National Park Service announced Monday that a statue of Penn will be installed. Stay at Welcome Park in the end. The plan to oust Penn was “prematurely announced and not fully reviewed by the agency.”
Translation: People of Pennsylvania i got you About this plan prematurely, before the NPS pulls out Penn's statue and leaves people with no recourse.
“Once all necessary internal reviews are completed, the park looks forward to engaging in a robust public process to consider options for park renovations in the coming years,” NPS said in a statement.
This means, “Let's try again next time.”
Whenever the “restorers” of history try to erase the past and overwrite it with new history, if the public rebels with the same vehemence that kept William Penn's statue in Welcome Park, then… It won't come.
If we surrender to the enemies of American history, we give up everything. Their demands are endless.
Notice they use the word “rehabilitation.” We are not “fixing” the park. People landscape it.But how to rehabilitate people think That's another issue. political issues. It's the kind of thing we associate with countries like North Korea, China, and the former Soviet Union. wrong idea It was a crime against the state. One can be punished by “rehabilitation” or “reeducation.” This often happens at camps.
We are not there yet, but we are getting closer. The National Park Service wanted to “restore” Welcome Park to “provide visitors with a more welcoming, accurate, and inclusive experience.” The idea is that a statue of William Penn is somehow unwelcome and not “inclusive.” The remedy was to remove the statue, thereby separating the “experience” of the park from the history of the man so responsible for the nation's founding.
How long will it be before the enemies of history turn their attention to rehabilitation? that?
It's clear they don't stop at Penn's statues any more than they stop at Confederate monuments in the Southern states and at Arlington National Cemetery. So don't be surprised if statue vandals try to rename the state that bears Penn's name. Don't be shocked if they call for bulldozing George Washington's Mount Vernon or Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, or sandblasting your face off Mount Rushmore.
how long ago Washington Does the manager (nee Redskins) also need “rehabilitation”?
What about rebuilding Washington itself? How can the name of that white slave owner continue to remain in our nation's capital? Never mind that without a man named Washington, there would be no Washington, D.C., and there might not even be a country.
There is no end to the rehabilitation of the left. That's why this rehabilitation must stop before it ends everything we love. Don't think for a second that a compromise is possible. A centrist approach that allows for a balanced view of American history may be a reasonable outcome. But these are not reasonable times.
history of this country I have to erase it.
By removing the statues and, by necessity, publicly acknowledging the role played by the flawed people who founded the United States, this country no longer exists. have history.
History is complicated. So are the men who built it. No one is perfect. William Penn certainly wasn't. So did Thomas Jefferson, who owned slaves even though he professed to hate slavery. Martin Luther King Jr. was unfaithful to his wife and likely plagiarized parts of his doctoral dissertation.
But we will cover the history of these people In all. We do not erase them from the history books just because they said or did something unworthy or abhorrent.
It appears that the balanced standard no longer applies to people in need of “rehabilitation”. Past history must be erased so that a new nation can be born from old forgotten memories.
But even these new, politically correct memories will prove to be temporary. They are destined to be “repaired” in turn as the political winds change and what happened changes. double plus good It will be today think about crime tomorrow.
Just ask George Orwell. Until, of course, he is also eliminated.
