How Far Will We Go?
How far will we go to sanitize history? How much literature will we sacrifice on the alter of political correctness?
Laura Ingalls Wilder reflected her time. She wrote of the things she knew, of the way things were when she knew them.
As a person of Italian ancestry, perhaps I should begin protesting the way the Romans were represented … things like throwing Christians into the Colosseum to do battle with hungry lions and using Christians as human torches to light Caligula's late night parties make my ancestors sound barbaric. Then there's the more recent unflattering representation of them in the Godfather series.
Where does the eradication of history's reality in order to satisfy today's political correctness end?
Perhaps we should give a little more attention to the advice which says, "They who are not willing to learn from history will be doomed to repeat it," than to the sensibilities of those who would wipe history away with the stroke of a pen.
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