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Peter A. Shulman 📚

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18 Jan, 7 tweets, 2 min read

https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1351231477141352448

This is basically an elementary school project that would cost millions and millions of dollars

https://twitter.com/rubycramer/status/1351231477141352448

I'll spare you the whole text but it's about as embarrassing and juvenile as you'd expect whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

Also the suggestion that the NEH and NEA should take $14 million each from their paltry $167 million budgets to build statues instead of supporting genuine arts and scholarship is damning.

There are admirable people on this list & terrible ones, but that isn't the point. Building a statue park to counter a mythical attack on Americanism is just dumb & creating more Historical Heroes just perpetuates a foolish way of thinking about both civics and history.

Anyhoo there's not going to be a national statue park so whatever

But aside from Columbus, who was just among the worst people in history to have done something significant, Maxwell Taylor?? Seriously?

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