WHERE DOES
By Kerry D. Moynihan
IT END? A MODEST PROPOSAL TO ACHIEVE A “HISTORICALLY CORRECT” AMERICA
There is a difference between right and wrong. It is important to know the difference between right and wrong. And without a doubt, enslaving people is wrong. We should not celebrate that wrong. And yet, how far can we go in denigrating
As George Orwell wrote in 1984 ... If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ And as the philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.”
historical wrongs before we enter the Orwellian world of denying history’s existence?
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