Cancel culture, Texas style

Nationally, Republicans decry "cancel culture" as the product of left-wing crybabies, but Texas Republicans do the same when it suits their purposes.
The Bullock Texas State History Museum was about to co-host an event promoting a book that examines the role slavery played leading up to the Battle of the Alamo. However, 3.5 hours before the event, the museum abruptly withdrew.

Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick -- who along with the governor serves on the museum's board of directors -- took credit for the cancellation. “...I told staff to cancel this event as soon as I found out about it,” he wrote on Twitter. "This fact-free rewriting of TX history has no place @BullockMuseum.” [Source]/b>

Except that the book is far from "fact-free," as its bibliography can prove. The problem -- the part Patrick didn't want to say -- is that it's heretical.

"Texas historical orthodoxy has long maintained that the Battle of the Alamo was about valiant Texas rebels fighting and dying to defending the short-lived independence of the Lone Star State from Mexican tyranny. "Forget the Alamo" challenges that characterization, reframing the conflict as at least partly about Texas' desire to preserve slavery, which Mexico had ended in 1829." [Source]

Understanding how past generations viewed the world is an important part of understanding history. To ignore how early Texans viewed the importance of slavery in their economy would be the real "rewriting" of history.

But Texas Republicans don't want to argue it. They don't want to talk about it. They just want to cancel it.