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| Monticello is going woke — and trashing Thomas Jefferson's legacy in the process |
| 2022-07-10 |
| [NYPOST] Monticello is going woke — and trashing Thomas Jefferson’s good name in the process. The Charlottesville, Virginia, home of the Founding Father and America’s third president is one of our best-known national monuments, familiar from its appearance on the nickel since 1938. But the hilltop mansion designed by Jefferson himself, once preserved as a tribute to the author of the Declaration of Independence, now offers visitors a harangue on the horrors of slavery. "The whole thing has the feel of propaganda and manipulation," Jeffrey Tucker, founder of the libertarian Brownstone Institute and a recent visitor, told The Post. "People on my tour seemed sad and demoralized." The new emphasis is the culmination of a 10-year effort to balance the historical record, officials of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit that owns the estate, have said. But visitors complain that employees go out of their way to belittle Jefferson and his life. "The tour guides play ’besmirchment derby,’ never missing a chance to defame this brilliant, complex man," Stephen Owen of Enochville, NC, wrote on Facebook. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Fuck the park service. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2022-07-10 22:36 |
| #2 From the layout and operations of Monticello I suspect he had enough of a conscience that he wanted to look at his slaves as little as he could--beyond the crest of the hill, under the floor, behind a revolving serving door. |
| Posted by: James 2022-07-10 22:33 |
| #1 I could see that beginning at other historic sights about twenty years ago. Changing the momentum of this will look an awful lot like the school board wars. By awful, I mean it is going to be nasty but necessary. True history is important, otherwise the left would not be trying to erase our beginning. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2022-07-10 11:19 |