So please don't confuse this article with an amazingly shameless opinion diatribe about his exhibit that has been circulating on Hispanic, right-wing extremist social media. It has so many clearly intentional distortions that only a person who has not seen the exhibit could tolerate reading it without getting disgusted.
Because one display shows the struggle of Cuban balseros, but does not specifically say that they were fleeing from communism, this repulsive propaganda hit-job concludes that the entire exhibit is Marxist, and that Congress should have never voted to fund the new museum. Reading it made me sick, especially after seen how well the exhibit represents the story of Cuban balseros. The article was meant to alarm Cuban-Americans with major-league distortions, expecting to fool those who will not see the exhibit.
Cuban-Americans, and how the article avoids key points that would dismantle its arguments. The exhibit even includes a raft that was used to flee from Cuba.
I took photos of every display in that exhibit, and I could dismantle every single distortion in that article. But I would be giving it more attention than it deserves.
Yet, OMG! If you see that exhibit and the read that article, as I did, you see is how terribly filthy politics can get!
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Is this exhibit too little and too late? Yes! Is there too much waiting still ahead for an entire museum? Yes!
But the content? I would like to see it more of it — as early as ´mañana!
Although limited, the exhibition is quite good.
after I read a shameless series of distortions about the exhibit, maybe I should not be so critical after all. LOL
As an anti-communist Cuban-American, I was furious
It clearly tries to appeal to Hispanic Republicans by making it seem as if the exhibit is hiding the Cuban flight from communism, and so, for example, it doesn't tell you about the photos of balseros risking their lives on flimsy rafts.
Because one display shows the struggle of Cuban balseros, but does not specifically say that they were fleeing from communism, this repulsive propaganda hit-job concludes that the entire exhibit is Marxist, and that Congress should have never voted to fund the new museum. Reading it made me sick, especially after seen how well the exhibit represents the story of Cuban balseros. The article was meant to alarm Cuban-Americans with major-league distortions, expecting to fool those who will not see the exhibit.
Cuban-Americans, and how the article avoids key points that would dismantle its arguments. The exhibit even includes a raft that was used to flee from Cuba.
I took photos of every display in that exhibit, and I could dismantle every single distortion in that article. But I would be giving it more attention than it deserves.
Yet, OMG! If you see that exhibit and the read that article, as I did, you see is how terribly filthy politics can get!
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Is this exhibit too little and too late? Yes! Is there too much waiting still ahead for an entire museum? Yes!
But the content? I would like to see it more of it — as early as ´mañana!
Although limited, the exhibition is quite good.
after I read a shameless series of distortions about the exhibit, maybe I should not be so critical after all. LOL
As an anti-communist Cuban-American, I was furious
It clearly tries to appeal to Hispanic Republicans by making it seem as if the exhibit is hiding the Cuban flight from communism, and so, for example, it doesn't tell you about the photos of balseros risking their lives on flimsy rafts.
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