[PJ] Pity future generations who will live in a world scrubbed clean of the sins of our forefathers.And sins there were. No one denies that. No one questions it. But to judge their entire lives -- their foibles as well as their majestic accomplishments -- without viewing both sides of their Janus face, demonstrates a towering ignorance and an aggressive denial of the truth.
What is truly frightening about the current attitude present in our "woke" culture, is the utter lack of care and concern for the damage being done to history on the part of the self-proclaimed arbiters of purity. Someone (always unnamed), somewhere might/could be offended by a sculpture, a painting, or a statue. The "offense" is that viewing this devil's work might/could "trigger" an unwanted emotion of some kind. (Not to mention the encouragement it gives to white supremacists!)
Then there's the case of the San Francisco school board voting to spend $600,000 to destroy a Depression-era mural of George Washington painted by an ardent Communist.