Power Line's Steven Hayward quotes HBO host/comic Bill Maher who makes a valid point about current people dumping on our heroes of yesteryear.
Being woke is like a magic moral time machine where you judge everybody against what you would have done in 1066 and you always win. (snip) It’s just a way to congratulate yourself about being better than George Washington because you have a gay friend and he didn’t. But if he was alive today he would too. And if you were alive then, you wouldn’t.
Renaming schools, hospitals, and parks honoring our founders is what Maher calls "presentism." Of course their values were not today's values, you wouldn't (or shouldn't) expect them to be the same. We are amazingly fortunate they could imagine a world better than the one they inhabited and put our feet on a path to arrive here.
