{"id":2954,"date":"2011-12-10T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/12\/rewriting-history-the-post-american-way.html"},"modified":"2011-12-10T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T12:03:00","slug":"rewriting-history-the-post-american-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/12\/rewriting-history-the-post-american-way.html","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting history the post-American way"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>One of the trademarks of post-American thinking is that America was so worthless, so racist, so evil, so bad and wrong about everything, that the world will be a happier place once it\u2019s out of the picture.\u00a0 To buttress this notion, we learn that every culture, civilization, racial stock, and nation that wasn\u2019t Anglo-American was, in fact, superior in every way.<\/p>\n<p>First on that little tablet was, of course, the switching of labels that occurred with the colonists, settlers, and Native Americans.\u00a0 In this, we learned that there were indeed bloodthirsty savages, brutal barbaric murderers who couldn\u2019t be trusted, whose only meat and drink were lies and lust for carnage, and whose demise any person of a true heart\u00a0must obviously desire.\u00a0 Naturally, there were the heroes, the pure and honest champions of virtue, tolerance, love, and honesty opposing these subhuman creatures of the night.\u00a0 Same basic story, we just switched the name tags around.\u00a0 Now we know it was really the European settlers all the time who were liars, thieves, murderers, savages, environment haters, and religious types.\u00a0 The Indians were, in fact, as close to perfection as one can ever get (really, have you ever heard a representative of an American Indian tribe say that tribe was wrong or to blame for anything?).\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Now, we have the next edition of this trend.\u00a0 For we find\u00a0that not just the American Indians, but in fact all non-Anglo Americans were superior, and have a tale to tell.\u00a0 In <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/billy-kid-pbs-film-explores-hispanic-011529092.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this little PBS story<\/a> (a major proponent of the post-American curriculum), we learn that Billy the Kid was actually quite the hero to Mexicans of the day.\u00a0 Sure, he killed and robbed.\u00a0 But mostly he did that against the Whiteskins, so no harm, no foul.\u00a0 He promoted a sort of anti-American anarchy, seemed\u00a0 to be pretty loose when it came to morals, and was actually a major defense against the White Racist Americans (TM) of the day.\u00a0 What could be more praise worthy?<br>Oddly, many in the comments section smell a rat with this one, and if folks who frequent such articles to comment can smell it, there\u2019s always hope that others, when confronted with such obviously propaganda based rewriting of the past, can as well.\u00a0 Not to say there isn\u2019t always the chance to learn from new information, or even see things of the past in a new light.\u00a0 But the post-American, post-modern hermeneutic is so predictable, so conformist, and so narrow one can\u2019t help but be suspicious as every shred and scrap of history seems to fall into this \u2018new\u2019 mold and prism through which all facts must be read.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the trademarks of post-American thinking is that America was so worthless, so racist, so evil, so bad and wrong about everything, that the world will be a happier place once it\u2019s out of the 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