by John Fund July 3, 2015
This Fourth of July we will celebrate our independence and freedoms. But
are we now more politically correct than free?
are we now more politically correct than free?
Last week, Apple Computer removed several Civil War games that uses
Confederate flag imagery from its app store. Apple CEO Tim Cook said on
Twitter that he wished to honor the Charleston shooting victims “by
eradicating racism & removing the symbols & words that feed it.”
Recall that Soviet leaders hoped they could drop executed party members
down an Orwellian memory hole by airbrushing them out of photographs.
Confederate flag imagery from its app store. Apple CEO Tim Cook said on
Twitter that he wished to honor the Charleston shooting victims “by
eradicating racism & removing the symbols & words that feed it.”
Recall that Soviet leaders hoped they could drop executed party members
down an Orwellian memory hole by airbrushing them out of photographs.
Apple relented a few days later and agreed to reinstate some games if
they merely, for example, displayed little troops carrying the infamous
Rebel banner. But the partial retreat came only after the Game Labs
Team, which develops computer simulations, blasted Apple:
they merely, for example, displayed little troops carrying the infamous
Rebel banner. But the partial retreat came only after the Game Labs
Team, which develops computer simulations, blasted Apple:
Spielberg’s Schindler’s List did not try to amend his movie to look
more comfortable. The historical Gettysburg movie (1993) is still on
iTunes. We believe that all historical art forms: books, movies, or
games such as ours, help to learn and understand history, depicting
events as they were. True stories are more important to us than money. .
. . We can’t change history, but we can change the future.
Nor are games the only focus of a PC purge. MSNBC’s Al Sharpton and
Sharpton’s National Action Network are demanding that the Pentagon
eradicate “all remnants of the Confederacy” from its military bases,
including the names of Confederate officers who didn’t own slaves. They
recently staged a protest outside Fort Hamilton Army base, in Brooklyn,
calling for the Pentagon to rename General Lee Avenue, which runs
through the base. Memphis mayor A. C. Wharton Jr. is demanding that the
grave of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest be dug up and exiled
from the city. Huffington Post commenters are demanding that statues of
Confederates in Washington, D.C., be pulled down.
Sharpton’s National Action Network are demanding that the Pentagon
eradicate “all remnants of the Confederacy” from its military bases,
including the names of Confederate officers who didn’t own slaves. They
recently staged a protest outside Fort Hamilton Army base, in Brooklyn,
calling for the Pentagon to rename General Lee Avenue, which runs
through the base. Memphis mayor A. C. Wharton Jr. is demanding that the
grave of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest be dug up and exiled
from the city. Huffington Post commenters are demanding that statues of
Confederates in Washington, D.C., be pulled down.
As Matthew Philbin of the conservative Media Research Center noted: “Of
course a living, breathing former long-time Ku Klux Klan organizer
resided in the Capitol for nearly as long as some of its statues, but
because Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd was a Democrat, libs like the
HuffPo crowd weren’t interested in history.”
course a living, breathing former long-time Ku Klux Klan organizer
resided in the Capitol for nearly as long as some of its statues, but
because Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd was a Democrat, libs like the
HuffPo crowd weren’t interested in history.”
Naturally, there are no calls to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from
anything, even though that progressive Democratic president was a
strident racist who during his time in office re-segregated the federal
work force, fired hundreds of black federal employees, and showed D. W.
Griffith’s racist Birth of a Nation at the White House.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420716/practice-free-speech-for-July-4-fight-PC-censors
anything, even though that progressive Democratic president was a
strident racist who during his time in office re-segregated the federal
work force, fired hundreds of black federal employees, and showed D. W.
Griffith’s racist Birth of a Nation at the White House.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/420716/practice-free-speech-for-July-4-fight-PC-censors
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