in no other country on earth do you get people flocking to historical sites, ppledging allegiance to the current power structure or a sanitized history.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1408379470193512451
haha I got shit like this in my local newspaper as well.
"Chyna won't criticize the CPC's history on their 100 year anniversary celebration! Authoritarian!"
I mean imagine reporting on some national celebration in the US and asking "why aren't they talking about the Trail of Tears?"
On :reddit-logo: every time there's a celebration or praising of the Haitian Revolution, mayos will get upvoted for saying "bu wha about all those poor white people that got killed?".
Whereas on the Fourth of July, bring up the atrocities the revolutionaries and their successors committed and you're suddenly a party pooper.
I'm a super America-hating leftist, but when I'm at Civil War sites, I'm all "FUCK YEAH, KILL THOSE TRAITORS!"
lol, in Canada most of the monuments aren't even stuff you can get excited about. Like oh cool, this is the reason why we're part of a British empire, instead of a French/American one.
In Denmark monuments are either: "Here's king so and so sitting on a horse and he was actually pretty awesome for unspecified reasons" or it's "We got our asses kicked in that war but we had the moral high ground"
Denmark and Sweden are the two countries that have most often been at war with each other apparently. Dudes rock!
I get weird looks from anglos whenever i mention louis riel in any sort of positive context. You guys love this rebellion shit, why are you so upset by a guy who actually did it?
Me normally: God damn the American Military Industrial Complex and all those who keep it running.
Me normally: Sherman, while on the right side in the war, was an imperialist and white supremacist, and gleefully participated against the Native Americans.
Me when I hear lost cause idiots: Sherman did one thing wrong. He stopped. I want to go back in time and give him nukes.
the only monument your supposed to like is the one mural of john brown being 9ft tall
sanitized history
In America you can visit several VFW monuments which teach you that the Japanese deserved the nukes.
https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/
Tourists, dressed in replica colonial costumes, raise their right fists and pledge their allegiance to the United States of America
This is "colonial tourism" in Virginia, where people flock to historic sites to absorb a sanitized version of the country's history.
Mount Rushmore? Never heard of it. What do you say, Buckingham Palace, what is that?
This China thingy is probably at least built on land that wasn't stolen from the natives, who got slaughtered in a literal genocide.
I remember going to a plantation tour in North Carolina and the guide never mentioned Americans as slave owners. It was only Europeans who were mentioned.
It's so ridiculous for these media outlets to keep pretending this is about the CPC when they're clearly criticizing Chinese history and Chinese culture. As in, this isn't about politics at all you're just saying China has a horrible history and tourists going there are misguided about it.
I would really love to visit the memorials for all the Chinese Communists and PLA/Party members that fought, struggled and died in the Long March or the Civil War and revolution in general and pay my respects. Proletarian heroes all of them. Stood up and gave everything for the revolution and for a chance for a free and socialist future for China, even if they knew they wouldnt live to see it. Against insurmountable odds and through hell on earth
sanitized version of the country's history
Um, "Heritage Not Hate" sweety
In the US I got a detention for not going on a field trip to a preserved cotton plantation
You can literally go tour antebellum plantations that function as living museums (minus one or two aspects of the lifestyle to protect 'muh heritage').
Did you know that the title of the novel (and film) Gone with the Wind refers to the beautiful way of life in the Antebellum South which was destroyed by the Civil War and that dastardly Sherman?
The South was too beautiful a place to be let go without a struggle, too loved to be trampled by Yankees who hated Southerners enough to enjoy grinding them into the dirt, too dear a homeland to be turned over to ignorant people drunk with whisky and freedom.
That blew my mind when I learned it. It's a shockingly reactionary story. Never read or seen it myself though.
I'm pretty sure it's Ron Paul's favorite movie. :thonk:
It really is, and adjusted for inflation it's the highest earning film ever.
