https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/by-banishi...-everyone/

While some of the things he mentions (like delaying or cancelling a movie release) are just business, some of the scrubbing of the past is a disturbing form of book burning.
We are back in the Puritan age, figuratively burning witches.


"...But that isn’t the fear in its entirety. Suppose a perceived violation of progressive orthodoxy translates into the kind of institutional cowardice on display in the forced resignation of Ian Buruma from The New York Review of Books. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, my literary agent and ­my publisher would decide they could no longer afford association with a pariah. My current manuscript wouldn’t see print, nor would any future projects I’m foolish enough to bother to bash out. Yet what I most dread about this bleak scenario is my 13 published titles suddenly becoming unavailable — both online and in shops...."

(01-21-2019 11:12 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/by-banishi...-everyone/

While some of the things he mentions (like delaying or cancelling a movie release) are just business, some of the scrubbing of the past is a disturbing form of book burning.
We are back in the Puritan age, figuratively burning witches.


"...But that isn’t the fear in its entirety. Suppose a perceived violation of progressive orthodoxy translates into the kind of institutional cowardice on display in the forced resignation of Ian Buruma from The New York Review of Books. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, my literary agent and ­my publisher would decide they could no longer afford association with a pariah. My current manuscript wouldn’t see print, nor would any future projects I’m foolish enough to bother to bash out. Yet what I most dread about this bleak scenario is my 13 published titles suddenly becoming unavailable — both online and in shops...."

Refs unpersons. Rewrite fullwise.

(01-21-2019 11:12 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/by-banishi...-everyone/

While some of the things he mentions (like delaying or cancelling a movie release) are just business, some of the scrubbing of the past is a disturbing form of book burning.
We are back in the Puritan age, figuratively burning witches.


"...But that isn’t the fear in its entirety. Suppose a perceived violation of progressive orthodoxy translates into the kind of institutional cowardice on display in the forced resignation of Ian Buruma from The New York Review of Books. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, my literary agent and ­my publisher would decide they could no longer afford association with a pariah. My current manuscript wouldn’t see print, nor would any future projects I’m foolish enough to bother to bash out. Yet what I most dread about this bleak scenario is my 13 published titles suddenly becoming unavailable — both online and in shops...."

Really more like the book burning nighttime rallies of the National Democratic Socialists Worker's Party or NDSAP.

Bullet is this any different than banning Huckleberry Finn from the High School reading list? Or in my Master's work finding that everything printed prior to the 1970's was in the archives at the University Library basically making any view other than that which was contemporary difficult to access for the student.

So we are erasing not only the entire cannon of work for the socially disgraced, but have quietly been relegating the perceptions about our history from past generations to the most inaccessible parts of our university libraries as if to say that what they thought, believed, and perceived has no bearing whatsoever on today.

These things are all massive symptoms of a re-engineering of our cultural identity. It's okay to see how we as a culture have evolved. But to erase the connection to the past is worse than unscholarly it is at its heart disingenuous and deceitful.

However, in a sobering aside, get prepared to erase Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and any other founding fathers, who being human and mortal, had imperfections that in their day weren't even considered to be amiss.

In every Totalitarian Cultural Purge that has ever existed going back to Ancient Egypt with the defacing of a predecessor's tomb or public record, the past has to be erased to make way for the atrocities of tomorrow. And to make those atrocities publicly justifiable those in the past must be demonized by a new moral agenda, ever how immoral it may be. Nero blamed the Christians. The Holy Roman Empire blamed the infidels. The French blamed the aristocracy. Hitler blamed the Jews, Mao blamed the intellectuals, Stalin blamed Trotsky, and now our children are being taught to be docile while the mobs in our streets are allowed to be violent, and the blame is being placed on the history and legacy of the White heterosexual male.

If that's not a shot across our bow to be vigilant and wake up, nothing ever will be! Our morals, our faith, our principles, our laws, and our culture is under assault and by implication that means we are the next target.

(01-21-2019 10:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  [quote='bullet' pid='15849595' dateline='1548087134']
https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/by-banishi...-everyone/

While some of the things he mentions (like delaying or cancelling a movie release) are just business, some of the scrubbing of the past is a disturbing form of book burning.
We are back in the Puritan age, figuratively burning witches.


"...But that isn’t the fear in its entirety. Suppose a perceived violation of progressive orthodoxy translates into the kind of institutional cowardice on display in the forced resignation of Ian Buruma from The New York Review of Books. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, my literary agent and ­my publisher would decide they could no longer afford association with a pariah. My current manuscript wouldn’t see print, nor would any future projects I’m foolish enough to bother to bash out. Yet what I most dread about this bleak scenario is my 13 published titles suddenly becoming unavailable — both online and in shops...."

Really more like the book burning nighttime rallies of the National Democratic Socialists Worker's Party or NDSAP.

Bullet is this any different than banning Huckleberry Finn from the High School reading list? Or in my Master's work finding that everything printed prior to the 1970's was in the archives at the University Library basically making any view other than that which was contemporary difficult to access for the student.

So we are erasing not only the entire cannon of work for the socially disgraced, but have quietly been relegating the perceptions about our history from past generations to the most inaccessible parts of our university libraries as if to say that what they thought, believed, and perceived has no bearing whatsoever on today.

These things are all massive symptoms of a re-engineering of our cultural identity. It's okay to see how we as a culture have evolved. But to erase the connection to the past is worse than unscholarly it is at its heart disingenuous and deceitful.

However, in a sobering aside, get prepared to erase Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and any other founding fathers, who being human and mortal, had imperfections that in their day weren't even considered to be amiss.

In every Totalitarian Cultural Purge that has ever existed going back to Ancient Egypt with the defacing of a predecessor's tomb or public record, the past has to be erased to make way for the atrocities of tomorrow. And to make those atrocities publicly justifiable those in the past must be demonized by a new moral agenda, ever how immoral it may be. Nero blamed the Christians. The Holy Roman Empire blamed the infidels. The French blamed the aristocracy. Hitler blamed the Jews, Mao blamed the intellectuals, Stalin blamed Trotsky, and now our children are being taught to be docile while the mobs in our streets are allowed to be violent, and the blame is being placed on the history and legacy of the White heterosexual male.

If that's not a shot across our bow to be vigilant and wake up, nothing ever will be! Our morals, our faith, our principles, our laws, and our culture is under assault and by implication that means we are the next target.
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Oh my! This is another level, sorry don't want to get banned responding to this stuff. God Bless

(01-21-2019 10:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-21-2019 11:12 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/by-banishi...-everyone/

While some of the things he mentions (like delaying or cancelling a movie release) are just business, some of the scrubbing of the past is a disturbing form of book burning.
We are back in the Puritan age, figuratively burning witches.


"...But that isn’t the fear in its entirety. Suppose a perceived violation of progressive orthodoxy translates into the kind of institutional cowardice on display in the forced resignation of Ian Buruma from The New York Review of Books. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, my literary agent and ­my publisher would decide they could no longer afford association with a pariah. My current manuscript wouldn’t see print, nor would any future projects I’m foolish enough to bother to bash out. Yet what I most dread about this bleak scenario is my 13 published titles suddenly becoming unavailable — both online and in shops...."

Really more like the book burning nighttime rallies of the National Democratic Socialists Worker's Party or NDSAP.

Bullet is this any different than banning Huckleberry Finn from the High School reading list? Or in my Master's work finding that everything printed prior to the 1970's was in the archives at the University Library basically making any view other than that which was contemporary difficult to access for the student.

So we are erasing not only the entire cannon of work for the socially disgraced, but have quietly been relegating the perceptions about our history from past generations to the most inaccessible parts of our university libraries as if to say that what they thought, believed, and perceived has no bearing whatsoever on today.

These things are all massive symptoms of a re-engineering of our cultural identity. It's okay to see how we as a culture have evolved. But to erase the connection to the past is worse than unscholarly it is at its heart disingenuous and deceitful.

However, in a sobering aside, get prepared to erase Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and any other founding fathers, who being human and mortal, had imperfections that in their day weren't even considered to be amiss.

In every Totalitarian Cultural Purge that has ever existed going back to Ancient Egypt with the defacing of a predecessor's tomb or public record, the past has to be erased to make way for the atrocities of tomorrow. And to make those atrocities publicly justifiable those in the past must be demonized by a new moral agenda, ever how immoral it may be. Nero blamed the Christians. The Holy Roman Empire blamed the infidels. The French blamed the aristocracy. Hitler blamed the Jews, Mao blamed the intellectuals, Stalin blamed Trotsky, and now our children are being taught to be docile while the mobs in our streets are allowed to be violent, and the blame is being placed on the history and legacy of the White heterosexual male.

If that's not a shot across our bow to be vigilant and wake up, nothing ever will be! Our morals, our faith, our principles, our laws, and our culture is under assault and by implication that means we are the next target.

Every generation rewrites its history.

I did a project once on the Spanish Armada where I read scholarly works written about it from 1880-2001. Every 20 years there was a completely different understanding about what the event meant. It was shocking how each new generation would disagree even on basic details about what happened.

Same thing is going on today. And I don't see anyone wiping out old books. If anything, it was more common in the old days to throw away books because they'd run out of space. Today when they run out of space, they put the seldom-accessed documents in long-term storage (like Iron Mountain, which is literally an old iron mine that has been converted into a massive repository for many university library systems).

(01-22-2019 02:19 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(01-21-2019 10:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(01-21-2019 11:12 AM)bullet Wrote:  https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/by-banishi...-everyone/

While some of the things he mentions (like delaying or cancelling a movie release) are just business, some of the scrubbing of the past is a disturbing form of book burning.
We are back in the Puritan age, figuratively burning witches.


"...But that isn’t the fear in its entirety. Suppose a perceived violation of progressive orthodoxy translates into the kind of institutional cowardice on display in the forced resignation of Ian Buruma from The New York Review of Books. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, my literary agent and ­my publisher would decide they could no longer afford association with a pariah. My current manuscript wouldn’t see print, nor would any future projects I’m foolish enough to bother to bash out. Yet what I most dread about this bleak scenario is my 13 published titles suddenly becoming unavailable — both online and in shops...."

Really more like the book burning nighttime rallies of the National Democratic Socialists Worker's Party or NDSAP.

Bullet is this any different than banning Huckleberry Finn from the High School reading list? Or in my Master's work finding that everything printed prior to the 1970's was in the archives at the University Library basically making any view other than that which was contemporary difficult to access for the student.

So we are erasing not only the entire cannon of work for the socially disgraced, but have quietly been relegating the perceptions about our history from past generations to the most inaccessible parts of our university libraries as if to say that what they thought, believed, and perceived has no bearing whatsoever on today.

These things are all massive symptoms of a re-engineering of our cultural identity. It's okay to see how we as a culture have evolved. But to erase the connection to the past is worse than unscholarly it is at its heart disingenuous and deceitful.

However, in a sobering aside, get prepared to erase Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and any other founding fathers, who being human and mortal, had imperfections that in their day weren't even considered to be amiss.

In every Totalitarian Cultural Purge that has ever existed going back to Ancient Egypt with the defacing of a predecessor's tomb or public record, the past has to be erased to make way for the atrocities of tomorrow. And to make those atrocities publicly justifiable those in the past must be demonized by a new moral agenda, ever how immoral it may be. Nero blamed the Christians. The Holy Roman Empire blamed the infidels. The French blamed the aristocracy. Hitler blamed the Jews, Mao blamed the intellectuals, Stalin blamed Trotsky, and now our children are being taught to be docile while the mobs in our streets are allowed to be violent, and the blame is being placed on the history and legacy of the White heterosexual male.

If that's not a shot across our bow to be vigilant and wake up, nothing ever will be! Our morals, our faith, our principles, our laws, and our culture is under assault and by implication that means we are the next target.

Every generation rewrites its history.

I did a project once on the Spanish Armada where I read scholarly works written about it from 1880-2001. Every 20 years there was a completely different understanding about what the event meant. It was shocking how each new generation would disagree even on basic details about what happened.

Same thing is going on today. And I don't see anyone wiping out old books. If anything, it was more common in the old days to throw away books because they'd run out of space. Today when they run out of space, they put the seldom-accessed documents in long-term storage (like Iron Mountain, which is literally an old iron mine that has been converted into a massive repository for many university library systems).

I didn't say they were wiping them out, did I? I said they were being made inaccessible, which is exactly what you indicate. Space is a convenient excuse. I accessed what I needed on microfiche mostly . The vast majority of undergrad and grad student never leave the main floors. There are even instructors who suggest research materials. I would have thought little about it if what I was researching hadn't been better documented in the past, and had the subject matter not been so revised on specious and biased recent material. Over the course of 3 years Masters program it was wash, rinse, and recycle with similar scenarios.

At one point in a significant class we were told that logic wouldn't be an acceptable line of argumentation because it was Euro-centric and had been used as a tool of abuse.

I came back for Master's work long after I did my undergraduate. I experienced both worlds. There's a significant difference. And just so you know I finished in the top 1% of my class in a top 20 AAU school.

What's going on in the name of higher education now is a farce.

(01-22-2019 12:54 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(01-21-2019 10:57 PM)JRsec Wrote:  [quote='bullet' pid='15849595' dateline='1548087134']
https://nypost.com/2019/01/19/by-banishi...-everyone/

While some of the things he mentions (like delaying or cancelling a movie release) are just business, some of the scrubbing of the past is a disturbing form of book burning.
We are back in the Puritan age, figuratively burning witches.


"...But that isn’t the fear in its entirety. Suppose a perceived violation of progressive orthodoxy translates into the kind of institutional cowardice on display in the forced resignation of Ian Buruma from The New York Review of Books. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, my literary agent and ­my publisher would decide they could no longer afford association with a pariah. My current manuscript wouldn’t see print, nor would any future projects I’m foolish enough to bother to bash out. Yet what I most dread about this bleak scenario is my 13 published titles suddenly becoming unavailable — both online and in shops...."

Really more like the book burning nighttime rallies of the National Democratic Socialists Worker's Party or NDSAP.

Bullet is this any different than banning Huckleberry Finn from the High School reading list? Or in my Master's work finding that everything printed prior to the 1970's was in the archives at the University Library basically making any view other than that which was contemporary difficult to access for the student.

So we are erasing not only the entire cannon of work for the socially disgraced, but have quietly been relegating the perceptions about our history from past generations to the most inaccessible parts of our university libraries as if to say that what they thought, believed, and perceived has no bearing whatsoever on today.

These things are all massive symptoms of a re-engineering of our cultural identity. It's okay to see how we as a culture have evolved. But to erase the connection to the past is worse than unscholarly it is at its heart disingenuous and deceitful.

However, in a sobering aside, get prepared to erase Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and any other founding fathers, who being human and mortal, had imperfections that in their day weren't even considered to be amiss.

In every Totalitarian Cultural Purge that has ever existed going back to Ancient Egypt with the defacing of a predecessor's tomb or public record, the past has to be erased to make way for the atrocities of tomorrow. And to make those atrocities publicly justifiable those in the past must be demonized by a new moral agenda, ever how immoral it may be. Nero blamed the Christians. The Holy Roman Empire blamed the infidels. The French blamed the aristocracy. Hitler blamed the Jews, Mao blamed the intellectuals, Stalin blamed Trotsky, and now our children are being taught to be docile while the mobs in our streets are allowed to be violent, and the blame is being placed on the history and legacy of the White heterosexual male.

If that's not a shot across our bow to be vigilant and wake up, nothing ever will be! Our morals, our faith, our principles, our laws, and our culture is under assault and by implication that means we are the next target.
[/quote
Oh my! This is another level, sorry don't want to get banned responding to this stuff. God Bless

Bless your heart...