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2003-01-07 22:54 | User Profile
Political correctness comes to Gettysburg
Political correctness at Little Round Top
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"For the past 100 years," says Gettysburg Park Superintendent John Latschar, "we've been presenting this battlefield as the high watermark of the Confederacy and focusing on the personal valor of the soldiers who fought here. ... We want to get away from the traditional descriptions of who shot whom, where and into discussions of why they were shooting one another."
Why the change? Unhappy that so many visitors to Gettysburg are white males, and so few are African-Americans, Latschar called in three historians to study how the Park Service was presenting the battle. The three wise men decided that the interpretive programs at Gettysburg had a "pervasive Southern sympathy."
2003-01-08 12:20 | User Profile
Political correctness at Little Round Top [url=http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30338]http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30338[/url]
Political correctness at Little Round Top
Posted: January 6, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern
é 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Almost all who visit Gettysburg, best preserved of all the Civil War battlefields, find it a deeply moving experience. This is truly hallowed ground. Here, tens of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers fought the decisive battle of America's bloodiest war.
From the first clash of the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, to Lee's attempt to turn the Union flank at Little Round Top on the second day, to Pickett's Charge against the Union center on Seminary Ridge on the third, to Lee's bleeding retreat back over the Potomac as a frustrated Abraham Lincoln wondered why his newest commander, George Meade, had not finished Lee's army with its back to the swollen river - it is an incredible story, told wonderfully well by the guides at Gettysburg Battlefield.
Now the story of the heroes in Blue and Gray is to be replaced with propaganda. The 1.8 million annual visitors to Gettysburg are to be indoctrinated in the politically correct history of the war.
"Gettysburg to Tell Story of Slavery During War," was the headline the Washington Times put on its story about how the National Park Service "has embarked on an effort to change its interpretive materials at major Civil War battlefields to get rid of a Southern bias and emphasize the horrors of slavery." A $95 million visitors center and museum is going up to recast the battle in a new light.
"For the past 100 years," says Gettysburg Park Superintendent John Latschar, "we've been presenting this battlefield as the high watermark of the Confederacy and focusing on the personal valor of the soldiers who fought here. ... We want to get away from the traditional descriptions of who shot whom, where and into discussions of why they were shooting one another."
Why the change? Unhappy that so many visitors to Gettysburg are white males, and so few are African-Americans, Latschar called in three historians to study how the Park Service was presenting the battle. The three wise men decided that the interpretive programs at Gettysburg had a "pervasive Southern sympathy." (How one can hear of 15,000 men and boys walking across a mile of open field into cannon and musket fire, in the name of God, country and Gen. Lee, without being put in awe and admiration, escapes me.)
Latschar then visited the Holocaust Museum and was inspired: "Our current museum (at Gettysburg) is absolutely abysmal. It tells no story. It's a curator's museum with no rhyme or reason."
But one visits the Holocaust Museum to learn about the fate of the Jews under Hitler. One does not go there to learn about Dunkirk or D-Day. And Americans who cherish the battlefields of the Civil War - Vicksburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Antietam, Manassas - do not go there to be instructed on the evils of the Confederacy. Moreover, to convert every battlefield into an endless seminar on the evils of slavery and the South is a fine way to turn these sites of national unity into cauldrons of national division.
President Bush should stop the politicization of Gettysburg. To let it happen would be an abuse of office. It would be to permit ground made sacred by the blood of soldiers to be exploited by ideologues to reopen old wounds. The old battlefields will become new battlegrounds of the culture war. Does America really need that?
There are places to argue the great issues of 1861. Did the South have a right to secede? Was the cause of the war slavery, or secession, or Lincoln's refusal to let the South go in peace? Or was it tariffs, or a desire of the South to separate from a North with which it has less and less in common? Did Lincoln fight the Civil War to free the slaves? Or only to restore the Union?
The forums in which to debate these questions are books, editorials, classrooms, columns, seminars, TV shows. But for the Park Service to impose its orthodoxy on these questions and pervert battlefields to indoctrinate visitors in the party line is to dishonor these hallowed grounds.
That slavery is wrong no one today disbelieves. But when the South fired on Fort Sumter, there were eight slave states in the Union, only seven in the Confederacy. It was Lincoln's call to arms to invade the South that pushed North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas out of the Union.
In waging cultural war to abolish the West, Gramsci and his Marxist comrades dictated that all social institutions should be captured to advance the revolution - from children's classrooms to college seminars. Now, Civil War battlefields are to become indoctrination centers of Political Correctness, unless we stop it.
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2003-01-08 13:58 | User Profile
Antietam Battlefield is a much better destination- there's practically nothing there but the field itself. No need to be spoon-fed ANY interpretation- just bring/read the books of your choice.
The silence alone is thought provoking.
I'm in that area quite a lot - I have a friend that has a place along Antietam stream.
2003-01-09 19:55 | User Profile
Disney and Jews on the American Civil War
American education had been denigrated by no less than Michael Eisner, Chairman of the Board of the Disney Company. Mr. Eisner maintained he had sat through many history classes where he read some historians "stuff", and "I didn't learn anything". An aggressive Jew, Mr. Eisner, had wanted to plow under a substantial part of the Civil War Manassass battlefield for a theme park. When asked if Virginia would suffer the same fate as Orlando, Florida, the site of Disney World, Mr. Eisner replied that "Virginians... should be so lucky". The dead of battle and consecrated ground had no meaning for this Jew whose greed and arrogance overwhelmed any sense of obligation to the past.
This thug Eisner as a Hollywood Jew has no feeling for American history from which he and his kin were excluded. He would plow America under for profits or the benefit of Israel.
2003-01-09 20:00 | User Profile
Jews and Blacks and the Civil War
**An amusing literary feuds in recent times has been between Mr. Podhoretz and Gore Vidal, a sometime chronicler of the WASP from the leftist view. At one time Mr. Vidal had told Mr. Podhoretz that he was writing a play about the Civil War in America. Mr. Podhoretz told Mr. Vidal that he found the Civil War to be "remote and irrelevant". This blasphemy so startled Mr. Vidal that he decided that Mr. Podhoretz had no intention of becoming an assimilated American, but rather he would continue to live among Americans to raise money and make propaganda for Israel.
Mr. Podhoretz's sentiments were not nearly as rare as many may think. A black representative on the editorial board of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Mr. Acel Moore, confessed to having visited the battlefield of Gettysburg for the first time well into his adulthood even though it was less than three hours drive from his childhood home or his adult home in Philadelphia. Mr. Moore then informed his readers that 51,000 died in the three day battle. This preposterous figure was almost seven times the number that did die. The blacks of America have long been conspicuously absent from touring American battlefields and having any feel for the war.**
Blacks and Jews have been excused by the national media from examing their role in the Civil War. They have lied about it to such an extent that it continues to have a cancerous effect on the America of today.
2003-01-13 16:54 | User Profile
Originally posted by AntiYuppie@Jan 11 2003, 15:06 ** Speaking of which, I've been trying to find Safire's article online for neocon watch...the article itself was mentioned and quoted by Chilton Williamson and Sam Francis, but I haven't been able to find Safire's original piece. If anyone here can track it down please drop me a note.**
I remember that article, but didn't see anything other than references to it via Google. However, a piece from Business Week excerpting a chapter from Eisner's autobiography turned up; it is puke-inducing to say the least. Eisner trumpets how Eric Foner was a major proponent of the park- not mentioning his consulting fee, of course. Eric Foner is straight out of Orwell, and was a big fan of the Michael Bellesiles work on guns in colonial America. Eisner also reveals- in a roundabout way- the outright venality of Virginia's leading political figures, who of course- according to Eisner- jumped on the park bandwagon immediately. The villains were those evil landowners and local yokels, in his estimation. Here's some quotes that will either make you scratch your head or want to pick up the pitchforks:
(referencing the Holocaust Museum): The museum's creators used many of the dramatic tools and techniques that Walt Disney had pioneered - film, animation, music, voice-over narrative - in this case to recreate and evoke the horror of the Holocaust. These were the same tools that we intended to draw on for Disney's America.
Amazing! By inference, every presentation of American history- whether sponsored by Interior or by Disney- should be viewed through the lens of the Holocaust!
(Eisner meets with team of history "experts"): ***When we turned to the question of how to tell the story of immigration, I now felt comfortable saying that we were considering using the Muppets. <_< Unusual as that might seem for such a complex subject, we were determined to make the exhibit accessible to children - in part by injecting some humor...
Suddenly, we had the benefit of highly knowledgeable partners in thinking about how to depict historical themes ranging from slavery to immigration in lively, novel ways without sacrificing depth or authenticity.***
When we teach my kids about immigration, we won't be using the Muppets or humor to sell them on our point of view. Our first lesson might be a drive down Buford Highway just outside Atlanta, which cuts through a suburb formerly called Chamblee but now known as Chambodia.
Eisner's arrogance is breathtaking. Check out this excerpt for a look into a truly warped mind:
[url=http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/eisner.htm]http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/eisner.htm[/url]
2003-01-14 02:12 | User Profile
Originally posted by weisbrot@Jan 13 2003, 16:54 ** Our first lesson might be a drive down Buford Highway just outside Atlanta, which cuts through a suburb formerly called Chamblee but now known as Chambodia.
Eisner's arrogance is breathtaking. Check out this excerpt for a look into a truly warped mind:
[url=http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/eisner.htm]http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/eisner.htm[/url] **
A double dose of what we have in CA. Eisner and his jewtool propanda machine using historical sites for "amusement parks" eh? Brainwasing along the lines of current ""Disney" procucts; films, Disneyland/California Adventure, Disney books ... Now the Civil War. You are going to see far worse imagery than has been mentioned in this thread. This is one of the lead efforts to begin the re-write of the CW in earnest.
Eisner and crew will be playing a role in the second Civil War. And they will go the way of most instigators and traitors, if things go the way I feel they will.
Double dose? Well, "Chambodia"? Criminy, sounds like two areas just outside of L.A. Part of Long Beach (what used to be a beautiful city) IS Cambodia, and Garden Grove, a few minutes down the freeway in Orange County is Little Saigon. Actually Big Saigon, since it seems to be populated by nothing but Vietnamese these days. This was one of the "designated" drop off points for "refugees" from Vietnam, thanks to Jimmy Nobel Peace Prize I'm a Traitor Carter. It was a great little city 'til the late 70's. Now you can SMELL it from a couple of miles away. No exaggeration.