Editor,
I respect people who understand history and logic. In the case of those in Berkeley who wish to remove the names of Washington and Jefferson from schools because those presidents owned slaves, as did 10 other presidents, I invite those people to look into their wallets and remove all items with pics of slave-owning presidents and send them to me for disposal. That will make them feel purer and seem less hypocritical. I will waive any disposal fee.
When I taught composition, I devoted a few classes to logical fallacies, such as false dichotomy, which offers two conclusions when more are available. A current example is the non sequitur “Silence is complicity” or “Silence is violence.”
Regardless of how one feels about the issues of racism and police problems, it is difficult to respect people or arguments that demonstrate so little knowledge of logic or history.
Darwin Patnode
San Carlos
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(3) comments
The next to go will be anything with a Spanish name in California, especially anything that begins with a San or Santa. We must strip all things that the evil Spanish did in California and in the south west of our country. Let us begin with all the old missions that dot the landscape of California and go from there. If we are going down this road, let us be thorough, consistent and color blind. Time for Mission Delores to be torn down and the Mission District in SF renamed.
Chris, you missed this https://25sam16.com/2020/06/02/being-and-staying-professional-and-listening-in-the-face-of-chaos/?fbclid=IwAR0xEPHKe9GxuHg3qwp9i3Xyoxg0hbSxI7i9EvaGCw4PrNzHd16qd1fhzMo
History can be distorted and slanted; some 20th Century examples were the predominately white administrated and controlled Hollywood film industry, television, Madison Avenue, Wall Street, Banking and the Real Estate industry which promoted segregated communities
Even our politicians were then mostly white candidates voted into office.
The American legal system; courts, judges and many juries was also limited.
Many history books were written by white authors and taught by white teachers Gender and race bias was ramped in schools, work and even the military..
There have been real advancements so far this century, but will these changes succeed in attempting to rewrite our American history ?
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