Political Correctness and Historical Revisionism

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the first permanent English colony in the New World. It should be a time of celebration.

Yet look at how some people are using it to make a politically correct agenda item point, as well as re-writing history in the process.

Noteworthy:


"But the timid, apologetic tone of some of the exhibitions detracts from the experience. As Edward Rothstein reported in The New York Times, “The Indians, we read, were ‘in harmony with the land that sustained them’ and formed an ‘advanced, complex society of families and tribes.’”

Rothstein continues: “English society — the society that gave us the King James Bible and Shakespeare . . . is described as offering ‘limited opportunity’ in which a ‘small elite’ were landowners.” England, they tell us, suffered from social dislocation, unemployment, difficult working conditions, and so forth. The exhibit goes on to suggest that Virginia's history evolved out of the “interaction” of three different cultures: British, Native American and African.

This sort of hokum has become de rigueur at American museums."

Exactly so.

Political correctness and its accompanying historical revisionism are perfidious in the lies these philosophies tell about our nation and its heritage.