London - Saturday at the base of Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota, USA. When President Donald Trump made a speech at the Independence Day ceremony on the 4th, he criticized the movement to remove the monument to America's historical greatness, and the participants booed in the form of agreeing.
Mount Rushmore is carved with the faces of four US presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The first boos came when Trump touched on a movement to condemn America's "negative" history of slavery.
As we meet here tonight, there is a growing danger of threatening all the blessings that our ancestors fought so hard and bleed to ensure. , we are witnessing a ruthless campaign to erase values and brainwash children."
The second boo came when Mr. Trump mentioned that the "Founding Fathers" of American independence were also being targeted in these movements.
"Those who seek to erase our legacy want Americans to forget their pride and great dignity, unable to comprehend their own and America's destiny."
"By overthrowing the heroes of 1776 [the year of the Declaration of Independence], we are trying to dissolve the bond of love and loyalty we feel for our homeland and what we feel for each other. Their The goal is not a better America, it's the end of America."
When the history built by their ancestors is criticized or attacked, the more conservative people provoke a strong rejection. increase. America is now further divided by the black discrimination abolition movement "Black Lives Matter" (Black Lives Matter), which was triggered by the death of a black man by a white police officer.
American history and slavery go hand in hand. And the land of the United States was originally taken from the Native Americans.
Slaves were freed after the Civil War (1861-1865) and the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and the abolition of slavery was specified as the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution. However, discrimination against blacks was legalized in the South, and after the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the Civil Rights Act was finally enacted to prohibit racial discrimination.
The "Black Lives Matter" movement has put a new spotlight on America's "negative" history of slavery, and General Robert E. Lee, Confederate military commander in the Civil War, Monuments to officers and heroes, and memorials to Confederate soldiers have been removed or decided to be removed.
In response, an executive order imprisoning for at least 10 years anyone who damages or defaces federal statues or monuments In his speech, Trump, who signed the
"One of their political weapons is a 'cancel culture', which drives people out of work, humiliates their opponents, and demands total submission to those who disagree. Totalitarianism is just that. , completely alien to our culture and values, and has no place in America."
"This grand assault on our freedom must be stopped. It will be stopped soon. We will expose this dangerous movement, protect the children of our country, and end this radical attack." Let me protect the American way of life that I love."
The US media all at once reported, "Mr. Trump's culture war message fuels division on Independence Day" (New York Times). More than 130,000 people died in the failed measures against the new coronavirus, and more than 45 million people filed for unemployment insurance in the past three months.
In order to dodge criticism, Mr. Trump said that China's cover-up constitution that did not disclose the epidemic of the new coronavirus immediately, the World Health Organization (WHO) that continued to defend China, and the Hong Kong national security law issue. , Although he criticized the trade deficit with China and the problem of entering the next-generation communication standard 5G of Huawei Technologies (Huawei), a major Chinese telecommunications equipment company, the “anti-China diplomatic card” did not occur.
Culture wars is the only card Trump can play after trailing Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden in polls in November's US presidential election.
Of the Four of Mount Rushmore, Washington and Jefferson owned a large number of slaves.
Trump said, "This monument will never be desecrated. These heroes will never be tampered with, their legacy never destroyed, their deeds never forgotten. Mount Rushmore is our ancestor." and will forever remain an eternal tribute to freedom."
People who can separate history from other people's affairs aside, those whose great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents were deeply involved in war and colonial rule will be criticized and attacked by China, South Korea, and domestic leftists for Japan's modern history. I feel a strong sense of anger. “Whaling” is one such keyword.
In the United States, as black man George Floyd = then (46) = who died after being held down by a white police officer with his knee on the neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds reminded him of the nightmare of slavery, "Black Lives Matter The movement's removal of statues and memorials may have stoked the South's Roussanthiman.
Slavery is a historical mistake that should never be repeated. Condemnation of the history of the "Black Lives Matter" movement spread like wildfire across Europe. The biggest problem is that Trump is using this to his advantage in the U.S. presidential election, fueling the flames of white supremacist anger.
America's culture war has turned into a fierce confrontation over abortion, same-sex marriage, secularism and religiousism, centering on conservatives (Republicans) and liberals (Democrats). But the danger is that the "Black Lives Matter" movement is infiltrated by extremist leftists who advocate anti-capitalism, weaken the police, and incite riots.
During the era of Jeremy Corbyn, the former leader of the Labor Party, the largest opposition party in the UK, the radical left took control of the party, leading to anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism. Capitalism spread. Corbyn youths are extremely exclusive and not only do not listen to different opinions, but they also start ruthlessly attacking immigration regulations, saying that they are racist.
In the age of SNS, it is said that "cancel culture" is to denounce without regard to the context and historical background. J.K. Rowling, the English author of the "Harry Potter" series, is being attacked as "transphobic", which is one example of "cancellation culture."
The problems of history, tradition, culture and human sexuality are not simple problems that can be solved only by the dualism of black and white, good and evil. I am adamantly opposed to the white supremacist rhetoric that Mr. Trump is hinting at. But I oppose both anti-capitalist and extremist theories of police weakness.
I cannot fully agree with the logic of the "Black Lives Matter" movement, which conflates history and monuments, honoring and memorial issues, and cuts them in half with a violent moral view. I believe that the American culture war, like the historical issue between Japan and South Korea, has the potential to further deepen divisions and rifts.
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