Monday 2 July 2018

Whitewashing history

Yet when the smoke clears from Charlottesville, I hope the statue . Japan is accused of whitewashing its history of warfare and imperialism by omitting or minimizing subjects such as the Nanking Massacre in . Some are forthcoming about their heritage, . This past spring, Sarah Bond found . Despite improvements, however, most mainstream social studies textbooks remain tethered to sanitized versions of history that bore students and mislead young .

CRTV host Michelle Malkin said the outcry against historical monuments is tantamount to the whitewashing of history by progressive leftists.

Not in math class, not in any class.

Polychromy in ancient statues and the whiteness of marble without paint has made both the Roman and Greek antiquity seem like they were all . Erasing names, however, runs the risk of whitewashing history. And these decisions help corrode societal attitudes, writes . Perhaps this attempted white-washing of history would not be happening if some people would quit co-opting the past for current political fights. As this history of painted statuary returns to view, it brings with it an unsettling question: if we know these statues were polychromatic, why do . For years, the Taliban and ISIS have been rightly derided for whitewashing history by destroying monuments dating back 0years or more.


Rice explained that she did not approve of whitewashing history. Whitewashing History , Brainwashing Youth. Smith said some people argue that the monuments are heritage while others . Shaun Frenette reports on the debate surrounding the renaming or removal of controversial landmarks or monuments in Calgary and throughout North America. Click here to join the Texas Freedom Network in calling on the state board to remove that propaganda and stop whitewashing the history of the . The Dallas Independent School District will recommend renaming four schools linked to the Confederacy. The fact that Hollywood has whitewashed Middle Eastern and African history since its early beginnings, and without interruption, makes me . Augustine, it seems, is being sucked into the vortex of political correctness, in terms of its history and the part it played for the South during . Some have alleged the upcoming Dunkirk film is whitewashing history.


They want to bully us into silence,” . Nor is she persuaded by the argument that teaching the uglier aspects of American history would make students hate their country. Even in school back in the old days, I was taught history and learned about the past (people and events), but never heard about changes in .

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