Dan Patrick, Lt. Governor of Texas, usually focuses his efforts on pushing vouchers. But now he has a new cause: blocking discussions of history at the state history museum. He wants the museum to celebrate the great heroic story of Texas, not to permit challenges to that story. He is an exemplar of Republican “cancel culture.”
Mother Jones reports here on Dan Patrick’s success at censoring a book discussion at the state history museum in Bullock.
On Thursday evening, two Texas writers, Chris Tomlinson and Bryan Burrough, were supposed to give a talk at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin about Forget the Alamo, a new book they co-authored with Jason Stanford. The book, which sets out to dispel the myths of the Republic of Texas’ founding, has already made waves—it makes a persuasive case, for instance, that the state’s much-hyped acquisition of Alamo-related artifacts from the musician Phil Collins was actually just a bill of goods.
Hosting an event with the authors of a buzzy new book about the state’s famous but fraught symbol is what you’d expect a museum such as the Bullock to do. But a few hours before the talk was to begin, Tomlinson announced that the event had been cancelled—in the fullest sense of the word.
As Tomlinson explained it, the museum had been instructed by its board—which includes Texas’ Republican governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the house—to pull the plug. “I think we’re being censored,” he told the San Antonio Express-News. On Friday, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, confirmed in a tweet that yes, that was exactly what happened.
Dan Patrick has set himself up as the official guardian of Texas history. Forget the historians and the evidence.
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Dan Patrick has got to be drunk.
And I guess Hawai’i isn’t Polynesian. DUH!
Maybe if they spent more time on their power grid and less time on being a local school board they’d actually be a State worthy of statehood.
Or maybe they’re just sittin’ around Southfork listening to audio tapes of Fahrenheit 451.
The Phil Collins story, The Next Battle of the Alamo, in the Texas Monthly is fascinating, especially once George P. Bush and his political aspirations enter the picture.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/next-battle-of-alamo/
Oops. I meant to reply to Diane’s post, not your specific comment.
Next the leadership (if you want to call it that) will want to have book burnings out in the town square.
more likely to happen than many realize: the masses have no idea why there being manipulated but their anxiety is at a peak
Imagining Daniel Patrick and Ted Cruz dressed in lederhosen and dancing and singing the “Angry White Boy Polka.” The Ledership.
Texas like so many other red states has a very uncomfortable relationship with issues related to race. The right wing would like to whitewash any hideous connection to racism. Since they would like to rewrite history without all the embarrassing racist reality, Patrick and other right wing politicians seek to “cancel” the past in the same way they persist in blotting out the reality of the 2020 election. They prefer to retreat to Kellyanne Conway’s world of “alternate facts.”
As long as Traitor Trump (Tiny T) is breathing, brags about himself, attacks and/or insults anyone that doesn’t praise him and/or do what he wants, and he stays out of prison, too many elected Republicans will continue to fawn over Tiny T and/or compete for the votes of the MAGA mob when Tiny T is finally gone from the political stage, the U.S. will remain a divided country and that division will grow wider depending on how long Tiny T continued to get too much attention from the traditional media, social media, and the alt right’s conspiracy theory media.
It’s really important to put him and whole criminal clan behind bars before he incites any more activity leading to senseless death. Just a couple days ago, he was on his abettor Hannity’s program telling parents not to vaccinate their kids, as though he didn’t already have enough blood on his tiny hands.
Since both Trump and his wife were vaccinated, it is puzzling why he would want his followers to forego the vaccination. This is a case of “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Kids. He is completely careless about the lives of KIDS!!!! Anything, no matter how horrific, if he thinks it will make a political point for him. How low, how evil, is this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/06/06/how-donald-trump-shifted-kids-cancer-charity-money-into-his-business/?sh=ce8e1e46b4a3
Daniel Patrick, the latest entrant in the Great Repugnican Self-Parody Competition.
But hey, why do these people even bother. No one unintentionally parodies himself the way Trump does. He is the greatest, the best, truly bigly (his pronunciation of “big league”).
This is the same guy in the party who whines about “cancel culture”.
Vice has an enjoyable article, “Guide to Creating Your First Culture War”. The advantage of distracting with a culture war instead of an actual war is explained. Readers learn that in Britain, “wokeism” is among the top 3 national concerns despite 59% of Brits not knowing what it is.
The article provides a “Woke Bait” list. A few samples include, “BLM campaigner… mildly progressive school teacher or board member … left wing university academic (bonus points if they’re ‘a bit foreign’…an LGBTQ rights charity…Meghan Markle…”
The article in its entirety provides a tutorial so that it becomes more apparent what the right wing does and what vehicles they use to achieve their goals.