It is unfortunate that many people today simply are too narrowly educated to begin with, and also too full of their own ‘self-esteem’ to ever bother to do fact checking.
From our spell-checker world to the ease of Googling on our smart phones and our affinity for the ‘byte’, the ‘wit’, the ‘meme’, many people today rely not on seeking to develop broadly based knowledge from a variety of factual sources, including frequent fact checking, but rather on simply regurgitating the ‘party line’.
The party line for many of the progressively minded crowd currently includes the overwhelming arc of ‘colonialism and white supremacy and racism’. Instead of viewing individual people and actions and histories broadly and thoroughly and impartially, things are simply ‘labeled’. If it’s a white statue, it must be a symbol of the current ideological ‘ism’. After all, until good old AD 2020, the US was such a hotbed of colonialism, sexism, racism, white privilege, heterosexual privilege, etc, just about anything that occurred before ‘today’ and was commemorating a white person must have been because of one, some, or all those factors. Even if there existed a white person who had done something remotely good, there would be something wrong they had done. George Washington may have led our country to independence but he had slaves. Abraham Lincoln may have won the Civil War and set the stage for emancipation as well as a reuniting of a country split apart, but because he was a white man, he was obviously a closet racist and certainly didn’t do enough to ensure that blacks were treated well. Heck, even poster girl Margaret Sanger, who worked so tirelessly for women’s ‘rights’, turns out to have had racist views no matter how hard her defenders try to spin it—and lately there are signs that she too is ready for the cancel culture, yet another example of the flawed beings our shining virtue shamers are ready to throw under the ‘zero emissions’ bus.
pot stirred so people don’t forget about you AOC ??