Almost correct...
it IS irrelevent to most anyone... except those who conveniently tried to use just such an arguement to blunt the bubba controversy....
Let us consider mindset for a moment...
False idols...the opposite of worshiping false idols isnt indifference....it's hatred...
Liberals *think* the conservatives look twords the founders as "idols"...to be worshipped...
This mindset leads them to believe that these conservative "idols" need to be destroyed...
Because...liberals in fact "idolize" many of their personalities...they in fact worship them...and think that their idols can do no wrong...even when proved to have done so...
While many conservatives realise that the founders where merely men of their contemporary times....todays morals and social norms simply do not apply...
It's not that they have done no wrong per se..only that whatever wrongs they did where by todays standards...not their own contemporaray times...
Thus the move to remove all vestages of Jefferson as a "slave owner"...
Or to simply destroy his historical image...because such an image is a threat...
Sure this is generalised...but the theme runs through out the liberal mantra
Consensual sexual intercourse with someone other than your wife is "destruction"?
Your standards have probably not been met by many human beings except for Jesus Christ and the saints.
Jefferson was a great man, but he was no saint. Whether or not he had sexual intercourse with his beloved deceased wife's half sister, he had other failings, such as ,living beyond his means, being a deadbeat debtor, and stiffing his creditors.
Somehow the world manages to carry on, regardless.
It is relevant if you realize that all scientific journals have editors. Editors are human and have a point of view and are more likely to accept articles and studies that reflect what they already believe. These are then sent to referees who have similar world views. Then a select few are published.