[ExI] Famous Scientists saying Racist Things.

[Adrian Tymes]

Yes, but the rewriting to be done there adds in major things that were
omitted: the opposite of erasing history.

For instance, yes George Washington was a slave owner - and he could not
have done what he did had he set his slaves free as soon as he gained
ownership of them.

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:35 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Some of this rewriting needs to be done.  If you have ever read books like
> "What I didn't learn in school", then you know that history as taught in
> schools has in many cases been heavily edited, and not by unbiased people
> (especially in Texas).  Nothing is written about Abraham Lincoln or George
> Washington that is bad, especially in high school.  The best you can get is
> a few stories from your history teacher but those are never in textbooks.
> bill w
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 7:26 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:00 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> > *On Behalf Of *SR Ballard via extropy-chat
>>> *Subject:* [ExI] Famous Scientists saying Racist Things.
>>>
>>> >……Should a scientist’s personal views matter in regards to recognition
>>> of their scientific achievement?  SR Ballard
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It seems to have come in vogue to erase history, perhaps in support of
>>> an effort to revise it.
>>>
>>
>> Renaming places and institutions is not erasing history.
>>
>> Rewriting history textbooks to omit mention of major things,  and
>> attempting to destroy or alter records, is erasing history.  Nothing less
>> is erasing history.
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