San Francisco reparations and the Golden Age of Revision

For just $5 million per person, we can rid ourselves of the iron burden of truth

The California Reparations Task Force meeting to hear public input on reparations (Getty)

We live in the Golden Age of Revision. Not everyone has noticed, so let me mention some of the highlights of the art of the Michelangelos and Monets of the revisionist moment.

First, of course, we have found the path to revising birth certificates and chromosomes on the matter of an individual’s sex, or as we have been taught to say, gender. This is revision par excellence, but only the beginning.

Then we have the New York Times in the company of many thousands of American school teachers who have miraculously overthrown the burden of snow-capped mountains of historical evidence and wizened learning of generations of historians. Their revision reveals that the real history of America began in 1619 with the arrival of Angolan captives at Jamestown. And that the American Revolution was undertaken by colonial slaveholders to prevent the British Crown from emancipating the slaves and thus pre-empting Abraham Lincoln by four score and seven years.

Read more here: https://thespectator.com/topic/san-francisco-reparations-golden-age-revision/