Tea at Trianon: Will We Allow Cancel Culture to Win War on History?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, July 16, 2022

Will We Allow Cancel Culture to Win War on History?

From Newsmax:

A biology professor who visits the library often was surprised to notice the display was missing. Kabbany writes, "He asked the librarians about it, and they had no details to provide, except to say it was removed after some sort of complaint, he said. It's been replaced with, 'well, nothing,' Wayne [a frequent library visitor] said. The walls are white, according to photos Wayne took for The Fix. The bust and plaque had been on display in the library since at least 2013."

With the rise of cancel culture, this is becoming a pattern. There is a war on American history, a war on America as founded. A few years ago, Jarrett Stepman of The Heritage Foundation wrote a book about this ongoing phenomenon. It's called, "The War on History." I have often interviewed Jarrett on the radio about this ongoing quest to purge our heroes or historical figures.
He told me: "Unfortunately, it should come as no surprise to see an Ivy League school remove a bust of Abraham Lincoln after receiving a complaint." And he added, "It's hardly just Confederates who are in the crosshairs of woke social justice warriors. It's Lincoln's legacy — and the whole history of the United States — that's on trial, too.

"Our country's greatest heroes and achievements have been judged and deemed wholly insufficient by the nation's institutional pseudo elite. Of course, this new 'elite' has accomplished little other than leading the country into a cultural morass while kicking countless great Americans off their pedestals."

Karl Marx is reported to have said, "Take away a people's roots, and they can easily be moved." (Read more)