Posted on 08/16/2017 10:51:32 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
'These are tactics that are well-known. You start by tearing down statues and burning books, and eventually you go after people.'
Federalist senior correspondent John Daniel Davidson joined Fox News’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to explain why the Left’s impulse to tear down Confederate monuments is totalitarian. Davidson noted that leftists calling for the destruction of statues memorializing Confederate figures has been going on for quite some time.
“I remember two years ago we had the 150th anniversary of the Confederate surrender and you had people in the mainstream media at that time calling for the desecration of Confederate graves,” Davidson said. “Not just tearing down statues but digging up remains, removing them. You know, bulldozing over cemeteries — and this iconoclastic impulse is native to the Left. This is what China’s cultural revolution was all about. If you want to see where tearing down statues by mobs will get you, look at pictures of China’s cultural revolution where they tore down statues, temples.”
“This is not about the Confederacy,” he continued. “This is not about the Civil War. This is about political power and it’s about a small group of people on the Left trying to exert outside influence on American politics by following in the footsteps of Mao, of the armed thugs in Weimar Republic, of the Taliban. These are tactics that are well-known. You start by tearing down statues, and burning books, and eventually you go after people.”
“This is what happens with identity politics,” he said. “If you push identity politics, eventually you get around to identity politics for white people, which is a dangerous thing in a country that has a huge white majority. You know, this is why the Left has been sowing these seeds of what’s been happening for a long time. Are they surprised eventually some white people are going to say, ‘Yeah, let’s do identity politics,’ and we have white identity politics. It’s all poisonous garbage.”
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“If you want to see where tearing down statues by mobs will get you, look at pictures of China’s cultural revolution where they tore down statues, temples.”
All being fueled by the msm.
Pushed by the msm.
msm
#FAKEAMERICANS spewing #FAKENEWS
“Like Mao’s Cultural Revolution”
Or the Taliban’s jihadi rampage.
ISIS is famous for tearing down statues also.
It is a Cultural Rebellion that will be a Cultural Revolution if they win.
which is why they don’t want us to have guns.
More like, it is Mao’s cultural revolution.
Leftists is ISIS
"Taliban blow apart 2,000 years of Buddhist history" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/03/afghanistan.lukeharding
"Here Are the Ancient Sites ISIS Has Damaged and Destroyed" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150901-isis-destruction-looting-ancient-sites-iraq-syria-archaeology/
Another POV is how Antifa is like ISIS.
The Left’s Impulse To Tear Down Confederate Statues Is Like Mao’s Cultural Revolution
Everyone forgets that Mao didn’t work in the fields after he took power.
He had his harem to look after.
And that is what is going on with this Charlottesville baloney.
Mao’s followers were starting to take a close look at him.
He wasn’t such a socialist after he had power.
He was in danger of being “disappeared”.
So he riled everyone up and got rid of the people who were looking at his rich lifestyle.
The Democrats are trying to do the same thing.
People are starting to realize that the real purpose of the Democrat Party is to elect thieves to public office so that they have access to the public treasuries in order to loot them.
Soros and the Democrat Party are afraid that they’ll not be able to loot the public treasuries anymore, so they’re stirring things up.
Screw Soros and the Democrats.
Yes it is. Same philosophy. Death to those who oppose them. We are entering a very dangerous period in our history.
One reason that the Left is so interested in the control of history is that it is perfectly aware of the murderous failures of the past and intends to repeat them, "better" this time, and does not want people to see them as a warning. You can't actually wipe out the past, but you can wipe out the bourgeoisie who remember it and keep the next generations from ever learning that past or, through poverty and terror, becoming that bourgeoisie. That is the only way to ensure a slave population.
It is NOT just the Left that is trying to tear down history. REPUBLICAN governors and pols are doing their share in having statues removed, placards replaced, buildings renamed, etc.
This is NOT a Left v Right issue. Many of those on the Right are so afraid of being labeled racist that they are leading the charge in many states, counties, towns.
Joseph Stalin was pretty effective at re-writing history, too.
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Wow, the left sure hates to be held accountable for their actions. They have had free rein so long that they act like hysterical teenage girls when called to account for their destructive actions.
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