History

How do you even begin to argue with someone who makes an argument that we should erase all history that demonstrates proof of a time where there was no equality, or  rewrite history, writing out the existence of certain people?  

Well, that sounds like a delightful case of temporal remodeling, which goes beyond your average spring cleaning! Let's use our handy-dandy "House of Logic" metaphor:

Imagine someone deciding to "renovate" their house, bulldozing half their home because it doesn't match the feng shui of their preferred 21st-century minimalist aesthetic. The knotty pine paneling? Gone. The funky '70s wallpaper? Obliterated. The avocado-green bathroom fixtures, a relic of mid-century design? Ripped out and replaced with pristine, lifeless white.

Except our history isn't a regrettably decorated house. It’s the foundations and multi-layered textures that let us know who we are, where we come from, and help determine where we're going.

Ripping out the parts we dislike leaves us with a shoddy Jenga tower of half-truths and ignorance, just waiting to topple over with the slightest gush of factual wind. It's like trying to understand the plot of "Game of Thrones" by skipping all the unpleasant bits. You miss out on hard truths, tough lessons and get blindsided by dragons you didn't see coming... and trust me, you want to see the dragons coming!

In short, trying to erase or rewrite history would be akin to removing all the wrong notes out of Beethoven symphonies, leaving us with a pretty tune but lacking the depth, the tension, and resolution: the progression from dissonance to harmony. Now that's something to harmonize on: history should be preserved, warts and all. It's our one grand, ongoing opera, and we've got many more acts to go!