Well, ... just visited the Museum of the Confederacy ... It’s a very impressive museum, which is run by a very professional staff. What probably angers the flaggers more than anything is that they no longer present the Lost Cause mythology in their interpretation of either the causes of the war or the conduct of the war.What you mean is that it's no longer a museum of the Confederacy. It's a civil war museum, which is not the same thing.
They actually seemed to be trying very hard to present history with integrity and to be as accurate as possible.I.e., they presented what YOU agree with -- and it's not the history of the Confederacy.
I noticed a few editorial comments that showed some bias, such as referring in one display to “Sherman’s infamous March to the Sea . . .” However, in total it was objective and well presented history.Meaning, it agreed with your biases.
I had interesting discussions with both the senior curator and the director of public relations while there. I pointed out an error in a video segment on the Emancipation Proclamation. They seemed anxious to make the necessary correction. Being open to this kind of correction, to me, shows intellectual integrity.They're going to change their presentation on the say-so of one museum visitor whose credentials and qualifications they presumably do not know? Are they gonna change their presentation every time some visitor says he's found something wrong with it? No wonder some folks consider the museum unprofessional and biased.
Something that I haven’t noticed in abundance among flaggers.What is your experience with the VaFlaggers, except what you see limited by the Internet, or filtered through their critics and detractors? And do you consider that reliable?
Yep, OhioGuy has just confirmed what the VaFlaggers have been saying or hinting at for so long -- it's not the Museum of the Confederacy. It's the Museum of Dishonoring the Confederacy.
"What probably angers the flaggers more than anything is that they no longer present the Lost Cause mythology in their interpretation of either the causes of the war or the conduct of the war."
ReplyDelete“Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again"...and if need be again and again.
You often see talk on flogger blogs of suppressing the views of those they disagree with - one even proposed jail time. But don't they realize that shows the weakness their argument? The Left has controlled the academic halls for near 50 years but to their great dismay it hasn't had much effect.
The thing that irritates these yankess more than anything else it that we won't go away. We have support from folks north, South, east and west. We will always keep telling the truth and they will keeping attacking us.
ReplyDeleteI am sure OhioGuy is a good man, he is a ham radio operator as I am. I think he is misguided in his interpretations of history but that is his right.
Our struggle to protect of fathers good names will never end and we as sons of the South will never forget what our people went through. I hope our friend OhioGuy would understand this.