The People of Wisconsin Must Be So Proud
The stupid,
it hurts:
“Everyone thinks of Lincoln as the
great, you know, freer of slaves, but let’s be real: He owned slaves,
and as natives, we want people to know that he ordered the execution of
native men,” said one of the protesters.
What explains such stupidity--and at a university, no less?
The anti-statue crusade thrives on shallow 21st-century
moralizing—the privilege of the prosperous and comfortable, far removed
from the suffering and difficulties of earlier times—coupled with the
sheer ignorance of a generation that has little understanding of the
basic facts of our history.
But the iconoclasts do not just see
Confederates or Christopher Columbus or Lincoln as problematic. The
movement is about more than these individuals. It’s an attempt to delegitimize and erase the very foundation of our civilization, which to them, is irreparably flawed.
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