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13 thoughts on “Monumental tides

  1. Peter Robbins

    Well done. The historical review of editorial-cartooning styles is a particularly nice touch.

  2. boatrocker

    Carly Simon as a musical reference is like using Guy Fieri
    as a cooking reference haha back.

    • Peter Robbins

      But enough about you. Back to the cartoon. It makes a fact-based point that many people refuse to understand because they have bought into the mythology that the United Daughters of the Confederacy worked so hard to spread.

      • boatrocker

        No kidding- whether the Lost Cause argument,
        ‘ehhh Japanese/immigrant gulags were summer camps’,
        ‘slavery wasn’t that bad for Africans’,
        ‘the white guy is the real victim for civil rights’, etc
        historical revisionism is a dangerous and Orwellian ploy that
        is used more and more now for some hmmm strange reason.

        • Peter Robbins

          No need to be snippy. I was just trying to get back on topic and reduce the distractions.

          • boatrocker

            Thank goodness they made you a mod here.
            Now civil discourse is restored.

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