I’d say this is enormously embarrassing, but that’s to short shrift the amount of embarrassment that should be at play here. But then, the progressive historicists and economic and social illiterates that populate many university Humanities and Social Sciences Departments haven’t the requisite shame to care — and beyond that, they’d merely shift into sophist mode and tell us that the Lincoln of the 1830s-his death is best understood as favoring the kinds of policies advanced by today’s Democrats, today’s Republicans being of course racists and secessionists, etc.
Truthiness, in other words. Which is truth robbed of the inconvenience of objective fact, itself a crass remnant of the Enlightenment that was itself championed by old white slave owners.
Of course, the irony is that the Democrats seem always to need to adopt successful Republicans as being just like them, be it Obama’s claim to be like Reagan, or this kind of revisionist nonsense chiseled onto marble and hung on the walls of an institution of higher learning.
Up is down. Black is white. Lincoln is a Democrat.
I knew a guy who lived in NJ who once complained loudly about what an asshole Republican governor Jim McGreevey was. Really.
Could have been a simple elision in error in the manufacture: they meant to have the plaque read “Abraham Lincoln, Assassinated by a Democrat”.
Lincoln a Democrat! that explains everything, he shot himself!
Well, that explains why John Wilkes Booth was so pissed off. Lincoln must have taken the First Baby Mama out for some kultcher and backed up traffic throughout the city, and we all know how actors hate traffic jams.
It will be a great lie until someone picks up a book and finds out that plaques are carved wishes sometimes.
“The future is known, it is the past that is always changing.” ~~Soviet dissident saying
@ page 132 potp
First, the Charter shook the nation’s conscience. It provided a
shock to a torpid and dispirited public opinion. However invisible
the multitude of shock-waves have been, however much its effect
has been denied or news of it forcibly blacked out, nobody, not even
those who refute it, harbours any private doubts about the
effectiveness and wider significance of that shock. The mass of public
opinion became aware of the Charter, albeit often only in a fragmented
form,and the overwhelming majority agreed with it, either
tacitly or explicitly. Is it a mean achievement to have provoked
throughout the nation a wave of criticism and scarcely concealed
distrust of the slogans and of the official news and commentaries of
the ‘information’ media? You would have had to have slept through
the whole of last year not to know about it, and anyone in that
1Ii~;{\’?17ia:itl ;,,, 1flWd.’ritj m’t ‘n:’h: 10 t’ne’Ir comforting, albeit
unhealthy, slumber. The Charter put to the authorities a series of
demands of a legal and moral character. Since the authorities
responded with repression, accusations and victimization, the
Charter has chosen to defend itself by fully documenting and investigating
the cases of repression and openly publishing and filing
this information. This I consider to be its second fundamental
achievement, i.e., that no manifestation of repression or violence is
anonymous any more. Its authors and mechanism are named and
identified
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Q: Am I in zer moderation again?
A: Yup. Sure am!
Still with the moderating?
Who Controls the Past controls the Future
Who Controls the Present controls the Past
IngSoc
Thus the democrats have always opposed slavery
especially the slavery of having to think and to do for yourself
“[T]he Jacob Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies of Northeastern Illinois University.” “Where scholarship and activism converge.”
“Abraham Lincoln” [the scholarship part]
“Democrat” [the activism part]
The plaque is the convergence.
Of course Lincoln was a Democrat! And George Wallace was a Republican. 3+5= rutabaga.
Apparently the plaque has been up since the building was dedicated (something like 100 years as it is a Frank Lloyd Wright building).
The claim is that “DEMOCRAT” means in this case “champion of democracy” or some such.
Just watch. Some helloournameisthestevecollectiveresistanceisfutileyouwillbeassimilated will argue, “if Lincoln were alive today he would be a Democrat!”
Whereupon, in a universe where justice ruled, Abe himself would rise from the grave and punch said arguer’s lights out. Then shuffle back to resume his dirt nap, hunger unslaked.
the South actually won The Civil War
– From the “All the kids do it” cover-his-ass meme no. 5,123.
“Why? It’s the problem with memorable words; people remember them.”
– No buttercup. The problem is Jug ears is an unmitigated liar.
Well, it does give him the chance to kick George McClellan’s ass – again.
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