No one can object to the removal of monuments to the leaders of the Confederacy, who dedicated their lives to the rejection of the thesis that “all men are created equal.” These figures sought to “wring their bread from the sweat of other men’s faces,” in the words of Lincoln’s second inaugural address.
This really jumps out at me. So to these authors, it’s ok to tear down statues commemorating the South or the Confederacy in the Civil War. No one can object, they claim. Their only concern is that the mob is going after people they think are deserving of honor, not the concept of mobs tearing down statues to people or causes they disagree with.
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Bingo. We Southerners have been saying this ever since Political Correctness first appeared in the early 90s. I know I’ve said it since then.....ie that they’d go after Washington and Jefferson and the Stars and Stripes next. You didn’t have to be Nostradamus to see where this was going.
“Conservatives” who were willing to appease the Leftist screech mobs by throwing Southerners and their history under the bus were only empowering the mob and embittering people who otherwise would have stood with them when the mob came for the historical figures and symbols they value. Idiots.