Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota at Wounded Knee

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota at Wounded Knee

“If we deny our part in history, we deepen the harm,” wrote Bishop Bullock and the Jesuit priests in their message. “We cannot lie about the past without perpetuating injustice and moral blindness.”

www.americamagazine.org

 

[ZiprHead]

Battle???

 

[ideologyhunter]

Hegseth should compromise. Any of the soldiers who had a BMI of over 28 should posthumously lose their medals. Cuz c'mon, that's just a bad look.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

"Their place in history is settled" not the East Wing's place in history though, but you don't mention that because it'd expose what you consider "historically valuable" or not is arbitrary.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

"Their place in history is settled" not the East Wing's place in history though, but you don't mention that because it'd expose what you consider "historically valuable" or not is arbitrary.

While that is true, I wouldn't say that this or other things the MAGAs have been doing is arbitrary. There's a pattern. If we look at this action, resurrecting Confederate statues and lost cause monuments, declaring Columbus an American hero who merely engaged with the people, removing Tuskegee Airmen material from air force training courses, the draconian laws they created across states for public schools, they're rewriting history. I am not sure what the best term for this pattern would be: white supremacy, western jingoism, western chauvinism ... something in between all these in a spectrum. Maybe ethno-nationalist historical revisionism.

 

[crazyfingers]

white supremacy

Since many/most Latinos are white, I'd suggest that the current regime is White European (but no Latinos or native americans welcome) Supremacist.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Their place in history is long settled. How you choose to revere them is the unsettling thing.

 

[TomC]

Their place in history is long settled. How you choose to revere them is the unsettling thing.

Wait until Trump & co start handing out medals to their modern cohorts. Masked thugs from ICE.
Tom