A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth

[Chris]

The left doesn't like the solution as see in A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth:

On the eve of Thanksgiving, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) over a Confederate monument that had stood for more than a century on the university’s flagship campus, in Chapel Hill, before demonstrators toppled it in August 2018.

The settlement might, at first glance, appear to be a workmanlike solution to a vexing issue. It ensures that the monument, commonly referred to as Silent Sam, will no longer adorn the university campus. Under the terms of the consent decree, the SCV will take custody of the monument and receive $2.5 million in “non-state funds” for a “charitable trust” to care for it. In a statement to the UNC community, which for more than a decade has been riven by the controversy over the monument, UNC Interim Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz applauded the Board of Governors for “resolving this matter.”

The settlement, though, establishes a de facto financial partnership between the university system and the SCV to preserve the monument. The SCV is free to use Silent Sam and this generous subsidy to continue its long-standing misinformation campaign about the history and legacy of the Civil War, with an endowment that rivals that of the university’s history department. But the cost to the university can’t be fully tallied in dollars and cents. A great public university should stand for the pursuit of truth, not the promotion of historical distortions and falsehoods. In seeking an expedient solution, the university system has succeeded only in aggravating the problems that the removal of the statue was supposed to address....

[jet57]

The left doesn't like the solution as see in A University’s Betrayal of Historical Truth:

It's a shame that the south continued to allow itself to be represented by white supremacy. The battle flag was bastardized as well and this gave the left all the ammunition they need to cite racism.

[Chris]

It's a shame that the south continued to allow itself to be represented by white supremacy. The battle flag was bastardized as well and this gave the left all the ammunition they need to cite racism.

Odd when the left, Democrats, were the racists. The point, though, as I see it, in the OP outcome, is the left in its zeal for phoney identity politics, shot itself in its collective foot.

[jet57]

Odd when the left, Democrats, were the racists. The point, though, as I see it, in the OP outcome, is the left in its zeal for phoney identity politics, shot itself in its collective foot.

Well, you need to hold up on the racist Democrats: they were Dixiecrats, not northern Democrats and all of those Dixiecrats switched over after The Civil Rights Act of 1964. You'll notice that all of the southern racists are now in the GOP and still making excuses.

[Chris]

Well, you need to hold up on the racist Democrats: they were Dixiecrats, not northern Democrats and all of those Dixiecrats switched over after The Civil Rights Act of 1964. You'll notice that all of the southern racists are now in the GOP and still making excuses.

And yet, historically, from before the Civil War, the south was Democrat. And were so right up until their resistance to and filibuster of the CRA. The south, fed up with Democrat racists, turned to young Republicans who passed and upheld the CRA.

Take your phony propoganda elsewhere, jet.

[jet57]

And yet, historically, from before the Civil War, the south was Democrat. And were so right up until their resistance to and filibuster of the CRA. The south, fed up with Democrat racists, turned to young Republicans who passed and upheld the CRA.

Take your phony propoganda elsewhere, jet.

Do you ever read and think before you answer? The SOUTH turned to the Republican party after the civil rights act

Get a grip and learn something about history dude; your ideology is getting in the way.

[Mister D]

Do you ever read and think before you answer? The SOUTH turned to the Republican party after the civil rights act

Get a grip and learn something about history dude; your ideology is getting in the way.

The south continued to elect a Democrat majority to Congress until the mid 1990s.

[jet57]

The south continued to elect a Democrat majority to Congress until the mid 1990s.

And how many southern states are Blue?

[Mister D]

And how many southern states are Blue?

Over 50 years later? ROFL

Back in 1990? Almost all of them. Again, they continued to send a Democrat majority to Congress. Learn something about history, dude.

[Mister D]

jet, is the room still spinning?