Hate America Museum Removed from WTC PlansExcept of course that you'd never know what the debate was about from reading
this article by the New York Times. Let's read the facts about the controversy that the Times gives its readers:
The decision followed months of acrimony over the International Freedom Center, with Sept. 11 families and politicians saying that the museum would overshadow and take space from a separate memorial devoted to the 2,749 World Trade Center dead and would dishonor them by fostering debate about the attacks and other world events.In addition to the terrorist attacks, the Freedom Center planned exhibits on such topics as Abraham Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the fall of the Berlin Wall, the civil rights movement, the Declaration of Independence and the South African constitution.
The museum would also include a section on the world's response to Sept. 11 and a film that links the victims' backgrounds to periods in history.
Some families have opposed the museum as much for its location as its content; they say it would sit in a prominent part of ground zero that would obscure the memorial museum.Isn't that hilarious? It makes the folks who oppose the IFC sound like a bunch of yahoos, who probably hate Abe Lincoln for freeing the slaves and disapprove of the South African constitution for similar (racist) reasons.
Let's go back to the
article that spawned the controversy and find out what was really planned:
To the IFC's organizers, it is not only history's triumphs that illuminate, but also its failures. The public will have come to see 9/11 but will be given a high-tech, multimedia tutorial about man's inhumanity to man, from Native American genocide to the lynchings and cross-burnings of the Jim Crow South, from the Third Reich's Final Solution to the Soviet gulags and beyond. This is a history all should know and learn, but dispensing it over the ashes of Ground Zero is like creating a Museum of Tolerance over the sunken graves of the USS Arizona.Hat Tip:
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