CANCEL CULTURE?

Texas Republicans Pressure Museum to Cancel Event on Alamo and Slavery

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wrote bluntly on Twitter, “I told staff to cancel this event.”

An event to promote a book examining the history of the Alamo and its connection to slavery was canceled just before it was slated to begin Thursday night after Texas Republicans mounted a pressure campaign against the museum hosting it. The Bullock Museum had scheduled a discussion of Forget the Alamo by historian Chris Tomlinson and two others. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wrote on Twitter, “As a member of the Preservation Board, I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it. Like efforts to move the Cenotaph, which I also stopped, this fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place @BullockMuseum.” The Texas Preservation Board oversees the Bullock Museum. Tomlinson shot back, “Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick takes credit for oppressing free speech and policing thought in Texas. @BullockMuseum proves it is a propaganda outlet. As for his fact-free comment, well, a dozen people professional historians disagree.”