Kevin Levin has a list of monuments that have come down in 2017 in a blog post titled, "The Year Confederate Monuments Came Down". Creative, catchy and fresh, isn't it? Not a bit banal....
Sez Kev, "There is no other way to spin what happened this past year as anything other than a complete rejection of the Lost Cause and the belief that Confederate military and political leaders deserve to be honored in our public spaces..."
What he's saying (he may not realize it) is that HIS SPIN is right and anyone else's spin is not right. Is he not? There's no other way to spin it except the way HE has spun it....
Once again we have a glimpse into the leftist, anti-Confederate mindset. Spinning is okay for them; it's not okay for anyone else.
Spin, btw, is just another word for interpretation -- a favorite word of what passes for historians these days. That's what Levin thinks the job of a historian IS -- to interpret history ... to SPIN it. And if you don't accept his spin, or if your spin clashes with his, then you're ignorant and probably an evil white supe, to boot.
He relates the comment of a resident of Memphis as if he's reporting on somebody telling the gospel truth, as if anyone who is for the removals is incapable of spin. "Finally," sez the Memphian, "we can come down and really enjoy this park. And we don’t have to see something that reminds us of our painful past: the lynchings, and beatings, and the selling of our forefathers.”
"In the end," Levin concludes, "that is what this is all about."
It's not about the truth, oh, no. It's not about other viewpoints that are just as valid.
You're a historian. You spin history, and your spin is to paint the side you don't like as total evil and unworthy of remembrance, and the side you do like as totally righteous. Your spin fosters a victim mentality in yet another group. You do this for years and years, indoctrinating students and the public.
And when somebody chants that indoctrination back to you, you crow, "That's what it's all about!"
(Note: Kevin doesn't even mention the extremely pertinent leftist/socialist/Deep State war on our current president that uses fabricated or artificially incited racial conflict to discredit him and portray him as a racist. Although you'd have to be deaf/blind/stupid or off-planet to miss it. All you have to do is ask yourself why all these removals did not occur at sometime the previous 8 years... But that doesn't fit the pre-selected spin. )
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