Charlotte ClymerDefending Nazi memorabilia or artifacts or whatever the hell by citing an “appreciation for history” rings hollow when you spend your free time at school board meetings screaming at teachers for having the audacity to teach your white child about American slavery and Jim Crow.
(((Baslow)))@charlotteclymer
I would make a distinction.
Publicly accessible museums -- or even collections of artifacts and manuscripts which are accessible only to qualified scholars and experts -- can provide us with valuable insights into the past -- especially those aspects of the past we'd prefer to forget.
The distinction lies not so much in the things or the collections of things but in the attitudes towards and disposition of them, of the place they hold in the larger system of public thought.
The Sexual Scholar