The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
The South's Secession Commemoration | ||||
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I think video shows how the Lost Cause has really been rejected so thoroughly by such a widespread segment of the nation that it is now being ridiculed openly and emphatically. I also like that they refer to primary source documents.
This is the link to the embedded video, http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-9-2010/the-south-s-secession-commemoration
A lot of people probably haven't thought through the issues regarding the Confederacy and neo-Confederate rationalizations. So the Secession Ball has resulted in responses in print and on video that explain what the Confederacy was all about to people who probably didn't know a lot of the historical record and hadn't thought through the Confederate "heritage" rationalizations. In the end the Secession Ball has probably hurt neo-Confederacy more than my two books combined had done so far.
On the more serious side, here is a really interesting article of Cambodia addressing the issues of the history of the Khmer Rouge.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-cambodia-education-20101210,0,1672919.story
Perhaps they can have a Museum of the Khmer Rouge which will be a reliquary for artifacts of that era and hand out prizes to burnish their reputation.
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