Before you go defending places as lost chances at teaching history, maybe you should check into the place and see what kind of things it was used for. The website doesn't seem to suggest it was used to teach history, just a glorified white people wedding venue.
Themadbeagle
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While your sentiment is a good one, from experience of living around such historical sites, most I have seen are operated by people like United Daughters of the Confederacy. The street really goes both ways with historical sites and while they can be used as grand gestures to show a horrible past in physical form to some who may see it, it can also be used as a propaganda tool of "lost glory" as the dsughters put it.
There is a town not too far from where I live that has a long history that has tons of white washed messages by the Daughters. Its frankly gross, but many people in that town don't bat an eye because those same historical buildings are used to re-enforce their view of the world not change their perspective.
The oxymoron that the army must "remain above all political disputes" gave me quite a chuckle.
Having worked on a programs that automatically generate and process data from excel spreadsheets for a large company, I shuddered when you said that.
Interesting, yeah thanks for looking into that. Like I said, do it disagree with you
I don't disagree with the fact that a lot of men obsessively eat meat and act like it is the only food worth eating is because of toxic masculine culture. I have met plenty of those type.
I do just want to add, in the context of this post, I think the motivation for the group being against meat eating is that it is a farming group, and I'm assuming, at least in some capacity, they represent animal farmers. They have a vested economic interest in stopping the push of lab grown meat. This is not me thinking they should, just thought I would point that out.
Like I said, my comment is not to take away from your post, just to add what I think is important context to the original post.
If I were to do this, I would likely go to jail for illegally detaining someone. I'm sure he will not face any such charges
This post literally reminded me I had my WiFi turned off and that I needed to turn it back on, thank you stranger.
Words like 'for' make no difference in Google searches, it has to do with how the search index weights words.
Can we please refrain from making comments on peoples speech patterns. I feel that adding your personal opinion about not liking their speech pattern does not add to the conversation in any constructive way and only serves to further create alienation for people who do not speak english as a first language or who otherwise have some form of speech impairment.
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I did, and while you give a meek might be used to teach history using a physical example at an arbitrary time in the future, you seem to miss my rebuttal that those are few and far between and it is just as easy for its use to swing the other way in the future. Stop trying to get people to care about a plantation burning down. Even with your more "altruistic" take it comes off very distastful. I'll leave with a quote from an article about it
"I wouldn't necessarily say that the history is lost. This artifact is lost, but the history is still there," Duggan said.
"If you're mourning the loss of Nottoway, I would encourage you to learn more about it. Learn more about other plantation houses. You can still learn from that history."
Link to article