If we’re going to get rid of things that remind us of the fallacies of past leaders, shouldn’t the Presidential Libraries be on top of that list?
The monuments the left truly wants to destroy aren’t made of stone, bronze, or marble.
They’re fragile ideas penned upon fragile bits of parchment.
And if the men who penned those fragile ideas are invalidated then it only follows that the ideas they promoted should also be invalidated.
Of course I refer to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America.
A little late for this.
The Left and their neocon cousins have been sowing the wind with hatred for the South and now we all get to reap the whirlwind.
Yes it is! As much as some people claim that whites are racist, or whites are this or whites are not that or even that whites don’t exist.
Whites are getting damn tired of all of this crap.
This is an extremely dangerous and irresponsible thing to do; one can only conclude that the people behind the monument removal actually do want to stir up hatred and anger and revive old hates and fears that we thought had long been left behind.
In my Southern town, a minister (from out of town) is leading a campaign to remove a monument to the Confederate dead from the town plaza. There are no Confederate symbols on it, but just a couple of elegiac inscriptions - and the names of the dead, virtually all of which are names of the old families who are still living in this town and in the rural areas around here. And they’re not happy.
I don’t think their response is going to be good if this goes much further. But again, I think that is precisely what the monument removers want: to provoke, destabilize and destroy.
A Mormon friend of mine was supportive of removing the Confederates statues.
I reminded him of the slippery slope he was taking. I told him “Where do we go next? Maybe we could start with statues or plaques involving Joseph Smith. After all, he was a polygamist and wasn’t opposed to slavery”.
He didn’t like that idea much.