Posted on 08/18/2017 7:30:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
There seems to be no bar to the crazy this week in the aftermath of Charlottesville. While critics are screaming at Trump’s suggestion that, after the Confederate monuments the left may go after the Founding Fathers, the fine people over at Newsweek are actually considering it. Not insane enough? Vice wants to “Blow Up Mount Rushmore.”
America-hating lefty Wilbert L. Cooper at Vice stated in his article, “Fact is, I'm not sure there is any American president worthy of being etched into the side of a 60-foot mountain with explosives and jackhammers. I mean, every single one has at least been partially complicit in horrific atrocities.”
Not even President Obama? The hero of the left?
According to the Wall Street Journal, Vice Media is currently valued at $5.7 billion. That's a massive outlet for the kind of anarchist terrorism they are advocating in their headline. Not to mention, the rest of the article is absolute filth that attacks every single president.
The headline was so bad, even Vice took it down after a couple of hours. They left a note: "We do not condone violence in any shape or form, and the use of "blow up" in the original headline as a rhetorical device was misguided and sensitive. We apologize for the error."
In Newsweek, Michael Dorf, a professor of Law at Cornell Law School, wrote an opinion piece with the headline: “Should We Tear Down Statues to Slave-Owning Presidents?” In the article, he stated, “I am not sure that there is any truly persuasive reason for retaining monuments and other honors to the likes of Washington and Jefferson.”
While Dorf, in Newsweek, did state that, “We honor Washington and Jefferson despite the fact that they owned slaves,” he also argued that in Germany, no one honors Hitler and Goebbels of World War II, but instead they merely teach about that era as past. Yep, that’s right, he just compared our founding fathers to Hitler and Goebbels.
After all, “Surely slavery, like genocide, is the sort of enormous evil that warrants purging.” With that kind of logic, the constitution warrants purging, and anarchy should reign. Because a republic founded by the slave-owning forefathers is racist.
Dorf was held back from any more statements, weirdly, by the production of Hamilton on Broadway, which has a “cast [that] overwhelmingly consists of people of color.” Which for him makes an argument that at least, for now, makes a “key distinction between Confederate heroes and Revolutionary heroes.”
Vice handled things a bit differently. Cooper stated (classily) at the end of his article: “Demystifying the historical figures of the past, pulling them off the great mountain top back down to Earth where they shat, farted, spit, pissed, fucked, raped, murdered, died, and rotted seems like important business for this country. As long as we allow those men to be cults of personality who exist beyond reproach, we're never going to be able to see them for all of their good and all of their evil.” (Again, even Barack Obama?)
Say a prayer for the sanity of the left.
How is that possible?
The Left is spinning into pure hysteria. It’s so over the top it would be amusing if they were not dead serous about it.
There's a grain of truth to that statement, IMO.
Liberals spew tolerance all the time but they’re the least tolerant.
I don’t like rainbow bumper stickers or muslim mosque but yet I tolerate them. The left is the most intolerant group in history.
We also need to dismantle the democrat party because of their racist history. They have a history of being pro-slavery.
They are turning into the Taliban.
Let’s tear down MLK statues and rename the streets named after him. He was a womanizer and feminists should be outrage and micro-agressed at seeing his name everywhere.
I wholeheartedly agree.
That needs to be sent through the Babel fish to make sense.
As long as you allow us cults of personality to exist beyond reproach, your never going to be able to see us for all of our good and all of our evil.
Hey morons, those men in rock are dead. You aren't, yet.
Liberals are the New Taliban. Disgusting creatures
“Fact is, I’m not sure there is any American president worthy of being etched into the side of a 60-foot mountain with explosives and jackhammers.”
‘There’s a grain of truth to that statement, IMO’
Is it the fact that they “defaced” a mountain or that no American President deserves to be honored.
Please elaborate.
These people are like ISSI.
They are either turning into Taliban or Germans.
It is extremely intriguing that the Democrats want to pull down the very Confederate monuments that they built!?! Many of them in protest to the civil rights movement!?!
“How is that possible?”
Exactly what I was thinking. Where did all that money come from?
Very considerate of Liberals/Democrats to be kickstarting Donald’s campaign even earlier this time round.
If this keeps up for the next two years The Don’s an absolute certainty for a second term in office.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: Barcelona Terrorism Could Be ‘A Copycat’ of Charlottesville Attack
Of course.
It’s the fact many people idolized politicians as though they are rock stars, when most are loathsome scoundrels.
But political leaders are who we create memorials in honor of. Unsavory people can do good things.
Half the people in the US are just plain crazy. I find it difficult to understand how people these days think this is “good” journalism-or even journalism at all.
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