<div dir="ltr">Yes, but the rewriting to be done there adds in major things that were omitted: the opposite of erasing history.<div><br></div><div>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.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:35 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">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</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 7:26 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:00 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>SR Ballard via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Famous Scientists saying Racist Things.</p></div></div><div><div id="gmail-m_-5800129489609282605gmail-m_-7280755704404374838gmail-m_1689337481302525092AppleMailSignature"><p class="MsoNormal">>……Should a scientist’s personal views matter in regards to recognition of their scientific achievement? SR Ballard<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal">It seems to have come in vogue to erase history, perhaps in support of an effort to revise it.</p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Renaming places and institutions is not erasing history.</div><div><br></div><div>Rewriting history textbooks to omit mention of major things, and attempting to destroy or alter records, is erasing history. Nothing less is erasing history.</div></div></div>
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