Posted on 08/17/2017 12:26:39 AM PDT by Helicondelta
President Trump had it right when, during his press conference on infrastructure he addressed the nonstop questions on Charlottesville, he asked if those obsessed with fears of white nationalism if they would also remove statues and monuments to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, both slaveowners, in addition to the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
The alt-left movement, which shares the blame along with arguably racist groups such as Black Lives Matter and Antifa, hate America so much that they want to erase all vestiges of American history and throw them down an Orwellian memory hole to be supplanted by alt-left politically correct ideology.
Notice that no one has demanded that statues of former senator and KKK icon Robert Byrd be removed, statues honoring the hard-core former white nationalist whom Hillary Clinton once called her friend and mentor, including one prominently displayed in the West Virginia state capitol:
The alt-left seems very selective in its righteous indignation, ignoring the historical record of a Democratic Party which embraced white nationalism, founded the KKK, and honored one of the great bigots of modern times -- Robert Byrd.
The alt-left’s historical amnesia omits the fact that it was Senator Robert Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia and former “Grand Kleagle” with the Ku Klux Klan, who holds the distinction of being the only senator to have opposed the only two black nominees to the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas, and led a 52-day filibuster against civil rights legislation.
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Erase his name from everywhere in W. VA.
... while you're at it ...
Excellent point!
Let’s wipe out the Kennedys since Old Joe was a Hitler admirer and supporter.
And rename the Chappaquidick Bridge the “Drunk Ted Kennedy Killing Bridge”.
How about getting rid of FDR monuments and buildings since he was anti-Yellow Asian in his interment of over 120,000 Japanese-Americans (and legal Japanese aliens) at the start of WW2 (I know it makes no sense but nothing the Left does makes any sense so we have to return the favor).
Great point!
Did it ever occur to Antifa and the other lefties they need to renounce, leave and demand the end of the Democrat Party since Thomas Jefferson is its founder?
The Democrat Thug Party is digging its grave.
It’s great that we are all chatting here. Meanwhile the left is destroying our country for real. They are not chatting about it.
This “democrats started slavery and KKK” argument means nothing in 2017, and especially to communist groups like antifa and blm. I appreciate the argument, but it’s not cutting it as a response to their violence and destruction of our history.
I am offended by BLM and any record of their existence must be removed from public view...NOW.
And Woodrow Wilson should be next.
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
But they go a long way in making a leftist.
Don’t ask, just start destroying them as well as removing all signage from any building with his name on it.
Excellent article—could have been written by any number of Freepers.
Worth reading the whole thing. Good talking points to give to the brain dead libs in your life.
And I still want that statue of Lenin in Seattle taken down.
“This “democrats started slavery and KKK” argument means nothing in 2017”
Then the dems have achieved their first goal. Now they must get rid of the evidence.
Agreed, however, the way to win the war we are currently engaged in is to use the Lefts’ tactics against them.
Better ways to do. If we advocate tearing down statues ourselves, it validates the tactic.
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