By Eric Blair 

William Shakespeare, no doubt the target of some future boycott by the faux outraged, aptly wrote, “A Plague on Both Your Houses.” The socio-political Left and Right have nearly nothing in common these days, but they do unite on their ridiculous use of cancel culture. 

While the Right seeks to demonize CRT by erasing any historical narratives of color from textbooks and classrooms, the Left wishes to remove statues, monuments and names of bigots (including, purportedly, those of some founding fathers) from schools. The only true victim is a national narrative that is laundered of its historical flaws and thus, the chronological and contextual chains that become vital teaching moments for this nation to progress, not only beyond its darker periods, but from the far more dangerous prospect of an unrecognizable, unblemished history, that reduces America to a piece of pulp fiction.