Posted on 08/29/2017 7:49:02 AM PDT by pabianice
All together now: Will the far-left play into Steve Bannon’s hands?
My conversation with Stephen Bannon persuaded me that, if nothing else, he is a deadly serious political strategist. The core of his strategy: rev up racist sentiment and bait Democrats and liberals into standing up for racial decency, but flaking off into identity politics that will keep the backlash going. And here is where it is urgent not to take Bannon’s bait.
Which brings me to Christopher Columbus.
The movement to take down statues commemorating Confederate leaders was already well along before the disgrace of Charlottesville, and good riddance to them. But as President Trump himself said in his infamous rant against the press, what about George Washington? What about Thomas Jefferson. They held slaves. And so they did.
Last week in Baltimore, some far-lefties took a sledgehammer to a statue of Christopher Columbus. A video uploaded to YouTube declared:
Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the Western Hemisphere. Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, slavery, ecological degradation, and capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas. That Columbian wave of destruction continues on the backs of Indigenous, African-American, and brown people.
What kind of a culture clings to those monuments in 2017? Part of our evolution as humans requires tearing down monuments to destructive forces and tearing down systems that maintain them.
(Excerpt) Read more at prospect.org ...
All Ahead Full Libtard!
This writer is a full on retarded communist. WHOOPS, there I go being accurate but hateful again.
MLK is fair game then. If it comes down to offensive statues based upon the mob, then any mob of any belief or moral compass can take it down.
Bannon to Columbus, writer is a retard
I guarantee the bastards have decided to eliminate Columbus Day once and for all.
Commie Kuttner expresses gratitude and sympathy for the Commie labor lawbreakers of the 30’s, like the one who planted the dynamite bomb that maimed my grandfather.
So basically, this “mainstream” lefty just doesn’t want to show the end game ahead of time in order to avoid the backlash.
In short, a liar.
That noted socialist George Soros likes this article.
One of them blew-up my coworkers dad in his car.
The free market economic system wasn’t prevalent when Columbus set sail. The West was still pretty much under the feudal system, although the merchant class was beginning to rise. Adam Smith didn’t write his treatise on the Wealth of Nations until 1776.
There. Fixed it.
Golly, gee whiz...
They forgot "climate change."
Or did I just miss it?
Reality and history has absolutely no effect on a determined lefty.
The end justifies the means.
An aware, normal, mentally healthy informed human being can ignore or otherwise deal with their alternate realities.
Most can't.
Like the actual definition of "insurance."
Enemies Domestic.
Soros,
This clown.
Antifa
The Alt-Left.
The GOPe.
Crony Capitalists.
Perverts and their enablers.
Marxists.
BLM and their Supporters.
Did I mention the Black-Masked Alt Left?
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