What's Wrong with Cancel Culture Anyhow?
"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, ... infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana Why on earth would someone fight to keep racist books on children's bookshelves? Doesn't this act make that person a racist by extension? Have you seen Dr Seuss's racist images? Have you read how Ma from Little House talked about Native Americans? Have you watched Peter Pan singing about why Native Americans have red skin? For that matter, why would someone fight to keep statues of Southern generals in place? Don't you know they were fighting for the right to keep slaves? Why would someone fight to keep a slave owner's name on a street sign? The questions could and do go on. To our modern eyes and ears, anyone who would fight for these thi...