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"The statues are an unnecessary affront to black citizens, who shouldn’t have to see defenders of chattel slavery put on a pedestal, literally."

As are statues of Jefferson Davis and George Washington who he's mentioned to many black people, why the investment in those and not other slave owners?

1 posted on 06/20/2020 2:51:52 PM PDT by Ennis85
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To: Ennis85

Another virtue-signalling book-burner.

Yawn.


2 posted on 06/20/2020 2:53:58 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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they’ doing this to erase Democrat history, and Democrat guilt


3 posted on 06/20/2020 2:54:07 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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They fear where the slippery slope of woke iconoclasm will lead — first it’s Jefferson Davis, ultimately George Washington.


A statue of George Washington was torn down in Portland.

The Berkeley Unified School District has begun the process of deleting the names of George Washington School and Thomas Jefferson School.

This article is out of date already with the idea that they are only after Confederate monuments.


4 posted on 06/20/2020 2:54:52 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Elihu Yale, after whom the university was named, was a slave-trader.

Shouldn’t Yale be renamed Malcom 10 university? Or something?


5 posted on 06/20/2020 2:55:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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It seems National Review has outlasted its usefulness.


6 posted on 06/20/2020 2:56:00 PM PDT by Demian
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Essentially, Lowry advises everyone to just wave the white flag, get some knee pads, and start shining the shoes of riotious blacks. No thank you.


7 posted on 06/20/2020 2:56:04 PM PDT by euram
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How about Senator Byrd... virtue signalling hypocrites and while we’re at it where’s the disgusting outrage of our liberals add farrakhan’s anti-Semitism oh this is Saul so stupid and so stalinist


8 posted on 06/20/2020 2:57:08 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (n)
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Appeasement does not work with those folks.
9 posted on 06/20/2020 2:57:09 PM PDT by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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Never Trumper Globalist appease and run strategy .
These losers need to go away .
When the French left show more courage and strength about defending history then you are a Dead
cause .


10 posted on 06/20/2020 2:57:10 PM PDT by ncalburt (Gop DC Globalists)
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National Review 2024: “The Conservative case for dynamiting Mount Rushmore”


11 posted on 06/20/2020 2:57:51 PM PDT by Shadow44
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NR (deliberately) misses the point again.

These thugs have no right to take down ANY of our cherished monuments and memorabilia. It’s not about 150-year-old Civil War. it’s about taking down America. DON’T LET THEM!!!


12 posted on 06/20/2020 2:58:07 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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I’m no expert on the civil war but I’ve studied enough to know that the people that fought on both sides forged the nation that we live in today. There’s was a true sacrifice, not the faux woke sacrifice of today. We remember the heroes of the Confederacy not because they fought to retain their peculiar institution but because without them we cannot understand the full measure of the horror of the Civil War or slavery.


13 posted on 06/20/2020 2:59:08 PM PDT by turfmann
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First they came for the Confederate Statues....

I warned about this years ago, even though I am no fan of the Confederacy.


14 posted on 06/20/2020 2:59:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Conservatives have an investment in history, because that’s where our truth lies. It may be good, it may be bad, but it’s real.

Most of the so-called “Confederate” monuments are pretty innocuous commemorations of the Southern dead (remember, the Civil War was fought entirely in the South), and even the later ones from the 1920s result from the fact that, during Reconstruction, families were not even allowed to commemorate their dead. The lost cause? Yes, but they admit it was lost, and even if they were racists, the monuments are mostly innocuous.

Build on this moment. The reason President Eisenhower in 1951 permitted the VA to provide markers for members of the CSA is that he wanted reconciliation.

Nobody - black or white - gains a thing by having a monument taken down. And of course, the net has widened, so virtually anybody who ever lived prior to 1980 or so is guilty of some infraction and must be erased. Naturally, including the founders of our country...the most evil place in the world, apparently, where black and non-white people have the highest standard of living in the world.

But it is imperative on all of us that we maintain our collective real history, good or bad, and I think this is the job of conservatives.


16 posted on 06/20/2020 3:00:18 PM PDT by livius
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Lowry is embarrassingly out of touch. They ARE destroying Washington, Jefferson, and Francis Scott Key today.

Some sports team or arena announced no more National Anthem before games.

This is WAR. They are working hard to provoke Trump (and patriots everywhere) because they know they are on safe territory in Democrat cities and states.


17 posted on 06/20/2020 3:00:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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That’s the street-fighting mentality that the National Review is famous for...(snark)


18 posted on 06/20/2020 3:00:46 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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“Conservatives Should Feel No Investment in Confederate Monuments...”

But we do little Richie.


19 posted on 06/20/2020 3:00:53 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I would say to the author of that piece, if given the opportunity, “Don’t be a pussy.”


21 posted on 06/20/2020 3:01:09 PM PDT by Augie
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Rich Lowry is to National Review what Kathleen Kennedy is to Lucas Films.


22 posted on 06/20/2020 3:01:21 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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An asshole point of view. It’s part of American history and all true Americans want it remembered. Also, most of those confederates in statues made significant efforts to heal the nation.

This fool thinks that by offering the revolutionary communists half of what they want, maybe he can appease them.

Taking down statutes is the mark of Stalin, Nazis, ISIS.


23 posted on 06/20/2020 3:02:17 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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