Chu is a jerk and I don't agree with him about taking Jackson off the $20, but in spite of himself he does suggest a valid point -- for all the talk about "tyrant Abe" other presidents, sometimes Southerners, sometimes libertarian heroes, pulled some pretty rotten stuff with much less justification. Antebellum America wasn't the libertarian paradise it's sometimes made out to be.
I do wonder, though, if we are supposed to apologize for every sin of the past, doesn't that mean that we can't escape those sins, and might as well keep Jackson, Jefferson, and the others on our money? If after 100 years and all the struggles, this is still an issue, apologies, etc. won't make it go away.
A couple of years back there was a u-toob video that showed hippies going full-retard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0hFSktb0jk
Warning: the video is about four minutes long but anything over 30 seconds will cause permanent brain damage.
The turgid gaseous emanations by Mr. Chu sparked this resonant memory of the hippies because each in their own phony and pretentious way try so hard toward relevance of things that are totally irrelevant. Instead of lamenting the loss of trees that have been cut why not celebrate and protect trees that still exist? They’re not making any difference about things that are, only whining about things that are no longer. Likewise Chu doesn’t appear to have anything positive to say about anyone but rather only suggests changing the inclusion of the president from Jackson to Reagan because, in his perverse thinking, he believes that it would be some sort of “living insult” to Reagan’s memory.
Leftists - what are you gonna do with them? You can’t reason with them and you can’t kill them (yet). ;’)