In 1949, George Orwell wrote :
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped (1984)
Three years ago, Thomas Jefferson's statue was removed from New York City Hall. Orwell's ominous description of the ethos of a totalitarian socialist state is inexorably coming to pass.
A few weeks ago, my kid, who is not at a private school, told me that she was being taught that the essential thing to remember about Jefferson was that he owned slaves.
This destructive madness is getting worse day by day.
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped (1984)
Three years ago, Thomas Jefferson's statue was removed from New York City Hall. Orwell's ominous description of the ethos of a totalitarian socialist state is inexorably coming to pass.
A few weeks ago, my kid, who is not at a private school, told me that she was being taught that the essential thing to remember about Jefferson was that he owned slaves.
This destructive madness is getting worse day by day.
