Well, I hadn’t read the “about page”, but now I have. It seems to me a very ambiguous justification of his memory, which no doubt includes many positive qualities.
I can only think that it is a measure of the moment of those events that they should weigh on us so heavily after 150 years.
I suppose this observation is rather curious coming from someone who has a great deal of difficulty supporting Trump in the primaries (although I have committed to do so if it comes to that in the general) to wit: many Trump supporters justify their man's statements which so many find offensive as a healthy antidote to political correctness which is a virus killing our discourse.
I confess to a small amount of that sentiment concerning the avatar and name of Nathan Bedford Forrest. I am puckish enough to like the idea that it pisses off liberals. And I further like the idea that free speech is a bit like muscles, they both must be exercised to avoid atrophy.
I have taken care to try to avoid defending Forrest as a matter of relativism, I think I have succeeded but only with mixed results. At the end of the argument I come to the conclusion that we simply cannot let liberals choose our heroes anymore then we can let them write our dictionaries.
Thank you for taking the time to consider the about page.
