Since I am old….I can remember back in the days of the old USSR and their views on history……they were called “revisionists” because their views were NOT completely accurate or truthful…..and we know how bad those dang commies were and how they wanted to change the world….right?
Well, it seems that those bad guys from yester-year are not the only ones that want a “revisionists” form of history……this from the Newser website………
Tennessee Tea Party activists met with lawmakers yesterday to demand the state make a number of changes—including “educating students the truth about America.” What does that grammatically suspect phrase mean? It means that they want textbooks to stop criticizing the founding fathers for their treatment of Native Americans and slaves. “No portrayal of minority experience which actually occurred shall obscure the experience or contributions of the Founding Fathers,” the activists wrote in material distributed to the Commercial Appeal. There’s been “an awful lot of made-up criticism about, for instance, the founders intruding on the Indians or having slaves or being hypocrites in one way or another,” the group’s spokesman said in a news conference, and the group thinks texts should focus on the positive strides the founders made. “It was their progress that we need to look at.” The group is also asking the state to “reject” the federal health care law, and allow the people to elect either the state attorney general or an independent “chief litigator.”
It appears that Teabaggers want to use a tried a true version of history……we rational people call it…..LIES! And if one looks carefully at most political history textbooks the founding fathers are depicted as capable of walking on water and in at least one case….walking on water and turning bread into fishes…..most of the textbooks already give a revisionist view of the founders and now the Teabaggers want to make it even more so……if they lie along enough then the real history will be lost….they want to turn these men into some sort of god that cannot be questioned…that type of thinking and desire is for FOOLS!
Since the teabaggers are trying to rewrite the last ten years to meet their claims, i see no problem with them whitewashing all of history. After all, jesus tried to repeal health care after he signed the constitution.
Remember Phillip…..everybody likes a little ass, but no one likes a smart ass….LOL…sorry could not resist…
Since a huge amount of history is created by wars and the history of any period is always written by the victors – isn’t most history “revisionist” anyway?
PS: that phillip is an absolute mine of information – I didn’t realise Jesus was around at the time of the signing of the constitution – but then I didn’t know that humans and dinosaurs roamed the Earth together until Sarah Palin pointed it out.
Quin…yes it is revisionist…….that is what I am talking about….why not tell the whole story….why glaze over the BS…after all we are all human…well most of us….