Lying to People about History Doesn't Help Them
... revising history is easy when you control the levers of education and popular culture...
A case in point would be the movie slated to hit the theaters tomorrow called Hidden Figures... The movie is a loose biography of Katherine Johnson, a black woman who played a role in the space program... All those white guys with slide rules and crew cuts? They could have done nothing without her...
Older readers may recognize this sort of revisionism as being akin to the phenomenon that used to be known as afrocentrism back in the 1980s and 1990s. Thanks to the progressive long march through the institutions, what used to be an academic oddity has turned into actual progressive cultural policy...
Afrocentrism involved the creation of an alternative history designed to improve the self-esteem of black students and other progressives. It involved the co-option of historical nations such as the Egyptians and the Greeks...
The ostensible purpose to this revisionism is to instill self-esteem in traditionally disadvantaged groups. The actual purpose is to undermine the primacy of Western civilisation in the West’s own nations. Per the progressive Left’s zero-sum mentality, to build up one group necessarily requires tearing down another...
... different cultures exist because of unique attributes possessed by the various races and the ethnic groups...
The West exists because Europe was populated by Europeans who had a unique set of cultures, ways of viewing the world, religious outlook, and inborn attributes like IQ and a drive to explore...
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