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August 22, 2005
The IFC: Whose Advice Is Relevant?
The insidious forces of multicultural relativism are still at it. Solomonia highlights a piece in the NY Daily News on the International Freedom Center proposed for Ground Zero:
A global network of human rights museums is urging the International Freedom Center to downplay America in its exhibits and programs at Ground Zero, the Daily News has learned. [...]
"Don't feature America first," the IFC has been advised by the consortium of 14 "museums of conscience" that quietly has been consulting with the Freedom Center for the past two years over plans for the hallowed site. "Think internationally, where America is one of the many nations of the world."
How wonderful. I can sense the looming presence of words like "hegemony", "privilege" and "arrogance".
"We have many, many advisers who have given us lots of advice," Richard Tofel, Freedom Center president, said last week. "Some of it we've taken and some of it we haven't - that's the nature of advice."
He said the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia and the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington had most inspired the IFC's vision, and that the new Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum in Illinois was also offering extensive advice.
Fine. But it remains to be seen whose advice will be followed--that of the Nation Constitution Center, or recommendations like the following from the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience:
"Help distinguish between American people and the U.S. government in exhibits ..."
"Involve the United Nations, UNESCO and other international bodies."
"Distinguishing between the American people and the U.S. government" is of course an tired old canard trotted out by authoritarian groups of all stripes. As much as we like to believe otherwise, our government is actually very representative, compared to most of the rest of the world--that's why our presidential elections are decided by a few percentage points in the center. And getting the U.N. involved in the ground zero museum is laughable on its face.
On September 11, the United States was attacked by a group of Islamofascists. The targets were all located in the US. Why isn't a simple memorial to the dead enough?
We do not need a museum on the site, much less a museum that involves the U.N. and helps distinguish between the American people and our government.
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