When the Past Offends the Present

No history and no future in this new utopia of Social Justice

Someone pointed out that you can tell how little influence conservatives have on American culture, in that it took liberals to finally "cancel" Margaret Sanger, the bigoted founder of Planned Parenthood. This has to do with a Planned Parenthood facility in New York removing her name and declaring that, well what everyone knows, that she was not only a bad person her goal was the destruction of "inferior" races.

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York on Tuesday said it’ll ditch the name of Margaret Sanger — one of the founders of the national organization — from its Lower Manhattan clinic over her “harmful connections to the eugenics movement.”
The group is also talking to New York City leaders about scrapping Sanger’s name from a street sign that’s hung near its Bleecker Street offices for more than 20 years.

The main reason I transformed from a liberal to a conservative is that I could no longer justify the lies I had to ignore in order to maintain a liberal ideology. This is a similar situation, eventually the hypocrisy begins to show and the leftist cancel culture, in order to maintain any legitimacy must begin to eat its own.  This is a very small bite, but there are others.

Princeton University says it is to remove the name of former US President Woodrow Wilson from a building on its campus because of his racist beliefs and policies. 

Well being that Woodrow Wilson was the most racist President in modern US history, and a democrat, it is understandable. When they come for LBJ we will know they are serious. 

Then today I read this:

The Sierra Club will remove monuments of its founder John Muir over his racist history, the environmental conservation organization announced Wednesday morning.The green group, which Muir founded in 1892, said that as the country begins to reassess the purpose and meaning of Confederate statues and memorials, “it’s time to take down some of our own monuments, starting with some truth-telling about the Sierra Club’s early history.”

The total insanity and hubris of this movement to destroy history is pretty much summed up in this statement from the Sierra Club:

“The most monumental figure in the Sierra Club’s past is John Muir,” it said in a statement. “Beloved by many of our members, his writings taught generations of people to see the sacredness of nature.”

 

This is why they must eventually come for Washington, Jefferson and all the founding fathers, slave holders or not. They all in some way fall short of today's  standards. All of history falls short of today's standards, that is the point of preserving history.  The fact that John Muir was a man of his times is too deep a concept for the shallow minds that inhabit the progressive movement, talk about your oxymoron.  Muir, and all of history really, has not lived up to the woke understanding of the modern day mental pygmies, so they must all be cannibalized to nourish the unquenchable thirst of the social justice vampires. They must suck the blood of the past in order to create a darkness in which they can survive. Enlightened humility is beyond their grasp.

 If  Muir, a shepherd who led mankind to a better understanding of our place with nature is to be wiped clean because he held popular beliefs of his time, where will we find ourselves? Where will it all end? Shouldn't we close Yosemite National Park? It, after all, is truly the greatest monument to Muir's life there is.  If yesterday's beliefs are to be today's crimes we will have no history and no future in this new utopia of Social Justice, for we all have sinned and fallen short of the Woke.

If history is to be judged by the present with no context then perhps Louie Gohmert, has it right. For if past performance is to be the judge of current acceptability, there is one institution that must surely be removed, even before the Redskins.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX-01) introduced a Privileged Resolution calling upon Congress to ban any political organization or party that has ever held a public position supportive of slavery or the Confederate States of America.
It also calls for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to remove from the House wing of the U.S. Capitol or any House office building any item that names, symbolizes or mentions any political organization or party that supported slavery or the Confederacy.

Why not? Nancy Pelosi made a big show of removing the portraits of Speakers of the House who ended up in the Confederacy. The House has voted to remove statues of any confederates in Statuary Hall in the Capitol. They were all Democrats. The confederacy was entirely a product of the Democratic Party to preserve slavery in the south where all the slave holders were Democrats. This is without even getting into the founding and support of the KKK and instituting Jim Crowe laws and segregation throughout the south. Bull Connors was a Democrat, George Wallace was a Democrat. The Democratic Party were by far the worst offenders in American history of institutional bigotry, hell the Democrats invented systemic racism in America. Oh did I mention Harry Byrd or William Fulbright or Albert Gore Sr. the list of Democrat bigots is almost limitless. 

 

Why do they get a pass in this new cancel culture. They surely need to be destroyed for the sins of their fathers, lest their legacy offend the present. If the past offends the present, not only does the past not care, it is not the past's fault. 

All of history is a tapestry woven together with threads that created the now. Few if any of those threads were unsoiled and we will not build a better future by attempting to remove those threads. The simple undeniable truth is that there is no Martin Luther King Jr. and his tremendous inspiration without George Wallace. Overcoming, change, recognition and advancement is the historical record of mankind. To hide from or to destroy that record out of some sense of self-righteous arrogance is not some form of enlightened justice, it is the opening a door into the dark cave of ignorance. ISIS destroys the past in order to enslave the present, that is what the new Woke culture is seeking to do and it must be stopped at all cost.