The Mobs Aren't Tearing Down America's Statues Because They Hate Racism. They're Tearing Down America's Statues Because They Hate America, and Want to Destroy It.

Ben Domenech John Davidson at the Federalist writes:

Their target is not the Confederacy. It is the United States. They mean to destroy symbols of American history writ large, because to them all of American history is racist and genocidal. Their goal is not to cleanse a nation they love of monuments to Confederate traitors who tried to secede, but to cleanse their consciences of ever having loved such an evil and irredeemably racist country in the first place.

That is why you see mobs defacing statues of abolitionists like Matthias Baldwin and Union war heroes like Adm. David Farragut and Gen. George Thomas. That is why the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the American Revolution in Philadelphia was vandalized this past weekend with the words "committed genocide." That is why statues of Christopher Columbus were torn down or beheaded in three cities last week. That is why officials in Dallas recently removed a Texas Ranger statue from Love Field Airport. That is why a mob of college students toppled two statues of American pioneers on the University of Oregon campus. That is why Black Lives Matter protesters in San Antonio, Texas, are threatening to march on the Alamo.

To suppose this has anything to do with the Confederacy or the Civil War is to misunderstand completely the nature of what is happening right now in America.

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There's a reason, for example, the anarchists and Antifa rioters in Seattle's "autonomous zone" set up barricades and hung a sign saying, "Now Leaving The United States."

These people don't want to improve America. Like the monuments they despise, they want to tear it down.

Ya Boi Zach of Comics Matter has a term for the hatred of the "Social Jutice" Warriors: "omnidirectional hate." They hate in all directions, 360 degrees around. They hate everything around them because, of course, the thing they hate most -- themselves -- they cannot do anything about, short of suicide.*

So they'll kill everyone else instead.

* If only the proper diagnosis, and the necessary treatment, would occur to all of them simultaneously.

posted by Ace at 01:36 PM

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