Believe me, this is not a good thing. The only comparable episodes I can think of involve the fall of the Soviet Union -- and then, only in the states formerly dominated by the Soviets, such as in Eastern Europe, where they eagerly tore down statues of Stalin and Lenin -- and the Red Guards rampage during the "Cultural Revolution" in the People's Republic of China, not to be confused with the democratic, rational, and well-governed Republic of China on Taiwan. The
Cultural Revolution was intended to erase the
"four olds" -- old customs, old habits, old culture, and old thinking. This, of course, included eliminating religion, freedom of thought, the idea that you could have any size family you wanted, that you could live and work where you wanted, that you could criticize the government, and other such archaic notions. Because the Chinese have a long history of government oppression, most folks went along with this. People who didn't were subjected to persecution for wrong thinking or speaking, or sometimes just being in the sights of someone who wanted to accuse the person of wrong thinking or wrong speaking. Those so accused were made to confess their sins, even if they had committed no sins, and be "re-educated" so they could in the future think "right." This turned out about as well as you might think. Does it sound familiar yet?
The only difference so far is that
millions died during the Cultural Revolution. So far, the modern equivalent in the U.S. has only cost a bunch of people their jobs, most for simply disagreeing with the mob's way of thinking -- such as this previously
anonymous woman who apparently merited the cultural cancellation treatment for something she did at a private Halloween party in 2018. The Washington Post saw fit to give this "story" nearly 3,000 words. Having spent 10 years in newspapers, I don't think I ever wrote, edited, or even saw published a single story that ran 3,000 words. That kind of length generally is reserved for world-changing events -- or, perhaps, stories where the newspaper, such as the Post or the New York Times, really wants to punish someone. Why this woman merited this treatment is beyond me, but she is not alone. The list of celebrities who have been "cancelled" in recent months keeps getting
longer. Nobodies across the country are being cancelled constantly, as well, for careless remarks on Instagram or Twitter. Hell,
the stepmother of the Atlanta police officer charged with fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks has been fired from her job just for being related to the guy by marriage.
So it comes as no surprise that the mob also wants to pretend the past never happened, or at least pretend some of it never happened. Any statute of any historical figure that meets with the mob's disapproval is now being torn down. Sure, they started with statues of Confederate generals and others who were on the wrong side of the War Between the States, called the Civil War by most. Heck, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, in a moment of monumental cognitive dissonance -- pun intended -- has ordered
the removal from the Capitol of four former speakers of the House who served in the Confederate army. She did so without ever even noticing, apparently, that all four were Democrats.
The mob, being a mob, is even less selective in tearing down statues. Sure, Confederate figures are torn down, and Christopher Columbus, of course, but the mob doesn't stop there.
A monument to the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment -- the first all-black regiment during the War Between the States -- was recently defaced. Protesters in San Francisco recently
tore down a statue of Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant -- later a U.S. president -- who won the war against the slave-holding Confederacy. They also tore down statues of Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes -- think Don Quixote, people -- a Catholic saint, and Francis Scott Key, who wrote "The Star Spangled Banner." In Portland, Oregon, the mob tore down a statue of
George Washington.
Liberals used to tell us that of course statues of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson weren't next on the list. It was just those statues of the nasty, pro-slavery Confederates. Well, George Washington is down in Portland, and now the New York City Council wants to
remove their statue of Thomas Jefferson. So how about you libtards shut up about what parts of history you won't erase. Your words mean fuck-all. The only statue the mob and the left won't try to get rid of is Karl Marx. Not sure there are any in this country, but if there are, those statues are safe. Ditto for Stalin. Lenin. And, yeah, Mao, whose lead the mob is currently following in tearing down statues that memorialize our national history. The mob doesn't like that history, and they want to erase it. At some point, we have to decide whether we want to stop the mob, or live in their world.
Update: Sorry, left out the Taliban and ISIS and their destruction of historic monuments and structures.
