Why Confederate monument removal is a questionable mission for all Americans, black and white.
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Liberals demand that we acknowledge the complexity of life and
human motivation when it comes to jihadis. Liberals demand that we
exercise humility and show compassion when confronting jihadis'
unspeakable crimes. Liberals forbid us from doing this work when it
comes to the South.
The left's draconian approach to the South
is a recipe for continued conflict. Liberal Seattle, Washington, hosts a
massive, sixteen-foot-tall statue of Lenin. For me and others whose
loved ones survived the Soviet Empire, Lenin is the architect of our
Hell. I think, immediately, of the Katyn Massacre, when Soviets shot
22,000 captured Polish army officers in the back of the head and buried
them in mass graves. If I lived in Seattle, I would not work to tear
down Lenin's statue. I would work to educate the citizenry so that they
wanted to tear it down themselves.
I would do this – work
respectfully for grassroots education and popularly-supported change –
because when the hand of Big Brother reaches down from above to erase
people's popular history, things end badly. If there is one thing that
the French Terror, Nazism, and the twentieth century's People's
Revolutions have taught us, it's this. The self-described pure ones who
erase the past and begin anew with a sparkly new calendar are those most
likely to fertilize the earth with more human corpses than she can
rapidly consume.
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