Re: Not politically correct
| June 24, 2019 02:53PM |
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John, you make a good point here, but the sad truth is we live in a world where people are desperate to sanitize history as fast as possible, because people can't handle the bug-infested underbelly of history. People have so badly wanted to shoehorn history into nice little containers (some classic examples: every man, woman and child in America was fully behind the war effort in WW2, nobody thought the space race was a waste of money and the Civil War was fought only over slavery).
If there's anything that puts people on edge about any tiny detail of history they don't like, it's gone. Immediately.
PC-isms have run amuck now, and the more uncomfortable it is, the less likely anyone is going to want to hear about it.
Heck, I recently read about the 150th anniversary of that different colored spike in Utah (which many of us know didn't complete a continuous rail line from coast to coast, but the public doesn't wanna hear it) when the accomplishments of the Chinese laborers was exalted, many wanted that placed on the downlow because it also went with the horrendous ways many of them died in the process.
The quote on people failing to learn from history being doomed to repeat it comes to mind. Anyone shocked at the horrors in Rwanda, Sudan and Bosnia only had to crack open Mein Kampf for a blueprint of it...
Lee
John West Wrote:
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> One of the things that makes C&TS history so
> interesting is there seem to be a number of
> politically incorrect things that went on and
> nobody is willing to say much. But therein lies
> what makes it so interesting, even tantalizing.
> We need to get that stuff documented while we can
> so future generations will know how ill mannered
> we were.....
>
> JBWX
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
If there's anything that puts people on edge about any tiny detail of history they don't like, it's gone. Immediately.
PC-isms have run amuck now, and the more uncomfortable it is, the less likely anyone is going to want to hear about it.
Heck, I recently read about the 150th anniversary of that different colored spike in Utah (which many of us know didn't complete a continuous rail line from coast to coast, but the public doesn't wanna hear it) when the accomplishments of the Chinese laborers was exalted, many wanted that placed on the downlow because it also went with the horrendous ways many of them died in the process.
The quote on people failing to learn from history being doomed to repeat it comes to mind. Anyone shocked at the horrors in Rwanda, Sudan and Bosnia only had to crack open Mein Kampf for a blueprint of it...
Lee
John West Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> One of the things that makes C&TS history so
> interesting is there seem to be a number of
> politically incorrect things that went on and
> nobody is willing to say much. But therein lies
> what makes it so interesting, even tantalizing.
> We need to get that stuff documented while we can
> so future generations will know how ill mannered
> we were.....
>
> JBWX
-Lee
Flickr photo set of my On30 layout
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