cultural treasures desecratorI am going to forget the Alamo.
queer as in fuck your borders@nationaltreasures There is seriously a good book making the argument that we all should do just that. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623832/forget-the-alamo-by-bryan-burrough-chris-tomlinson-and-jason-stanford/
Eve ✧ 𝔟𝔯𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔪𝔞𝔵𝔵𝔦𝔫𝔤@bright_helpings @nationaltreasures there's also a great section in Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot which argues that huge swaths of the Alamo story have been subject to historical erasure to create the ideal rah-rah framing. Selective forgetting is required to Remember The Alamo