Comments on: Heroification in History https://hankeringforhistory.com/heroification-in-history/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=heroification-in-history Hanker: To have a strong, often restless desire, in this case for--you guessed it--history! Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:04:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Loading......... https://hankeringforhistory.com/heroification-in-history/#comment-90563 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:04:01 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=910#comment-90563 In reply to dazedsemaphore.

I don’t think that Hitler won WWll, he just kinda made it worse. Otherwise, I agree with everything you guys said.

]]> By: Grant https://hankeringforhistory.com/heroification-in-history/#comment-845 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:18:00 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=910#comment-845 In reply to Tiffany.

Ha ha, yep…that’s the worst! It is always unsettling to find out that someone you thought was a great person, was not.

]]> By: Tiffany https://hankeringforhistory.com/heroification-in-history/#comment-844 Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:02:00 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=910#comment-844 Good post. Many years ago in high school I wrote a paper on Woodrow Wilson and even called him one of my favorite presidents due to his creation of the league of nations and the way he handled WWI. It wasn’t until I took a history class in college that I learned of Wilson’s stance on racism and segregation. At the time and largely because I am black I was ashamed to have even thought highly of him. During Wilson’s time many thought the same way he did, so today I won’t hold that against him, but he’s no hero in my eyes. It’s disappointing to think that while in high school I received the most cleaned up, sanitized version of him and history in general.

]]> By: Derrick Birdsall https://hankeringforhistory.com/heroification-in-history/#comment-227 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:45:44 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=910#comment-227 The problem many people make in determining the rights and wrongs of those who went before is by judging them with our morals and standards. That is completely wrong. Would Wilson be considered a racist today? Surely! But then so would nearly everyone else alive at that time. During the Civil War, racism existed in the north as surely as it existed in the south… yet that is overlooked and we don’t talk about that, either, because it doesn’t fit our modern day template.

As I said in another response – there are good and bad in all of us and always has been. To judge someone by our standards today is grossly unfair and unprofessional and sadly it’s all too much the norm.

Did FDR send thousands of Japanese into the camps? Yes, he did – but he did it out of the necessity of the perceived threat the United States was facing at the time and he was doing what he thought was right. That’s not forgiving him, that’s admitting to the realities of the war at that time.

It is a sad state of affairs when today’s historians discuss those things that our predecessors did without losing first their own 21st century morals and standards. Those who went before did all sorts of things that for us today are wrong and socially not acceptable; they also weren’t privy to all we have learned in the meantime.

]]> By: JerryG https://hankeringforhistory.com/heroification-in-history/#comment-226 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 01:23:56 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=910#comment-226 Another interesting book by James Loewen is this one.

http://www.amazon.com/Sundown-Towns-Hidden-Dimension-American/dp/156584887X

]]> By: motleydragon https://hankeringforhistory.com/heroification-in-history/#comment-225 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:01:03 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=910#comment-225 In reply to HankeringforHistory.

Thank you for dropping in on my blog… it helped me find yours. I will definitely be back!

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