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    After the Confederates, Who’s Next?

    Pat Buchanan weighs in on the taking down of status and memorials in After the Confederates, Who’s Next?:

    Since the ’60s, there has arisen an ideology that holds that the Confederacy was the moral equivalent of Nazi Germany and those who fought under its battle flag should be regarded as traitors or worse.

    ...Behind this remorseless drive to blast the greatest names from America’s past off public buildings, and to tear down their statues and monuments, is an egalitarian extremism rooted in envy and hate.

    ...What they blindly refuse to see is that while its sins are scarlet, as are those of all civilizations, it is the achievements of the West that are unrivaled. The West ended slavery. Christianity and the West gave birth to the idea of inalienable human rights.

    ...Of these icon-smashers it may be said: Like ISIS and Boko Haram, they can tear down statues, but these people could never build a country....
    An apt analogy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Pat Buchanan weighs in on the taking down of status and memorials in After the Confederates, Who’s Next?:



    An apt analogy.
    That's how "progress" works. Cowardly, they get an inch then take more.

    It's why I won't support stuff like gun control any longer, not even reasonable control.

    I'm done with that. We can't let this cancer just eat us away.
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    Rename the Russell Building (Senate) - a racist.
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    The Christians that evangelized the native population must be erased. Their religious privilege must be forgotten.

    Industrialists that exploited the masses must have their names erased from the museums and buildings they built.
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    we should melt them all down and build a shrine dedicated to overreaction.

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