Defenestration

For John, BLUF:  Eventually they will be coming for Ladd and Whitney, because they had great uncles who were once slave holders.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Why the statue-smashers will never stop

From The New York Post, by Mr Karol Markowicz, 17 September 2017.

Here is the lede plus a few paragraphs:

After last month’s violent clashes in Charlottesville, Va., that left one woman dead and many others injured, the left has focused not on some sort of national healing but on destruction — specifically, of old statues of long-dead men.

And it doesn’t much matter what those men stood for.  America’s culture of idol worship and public defenestration has come for anything set in stone.

Last Tuesday, a statue of Christopher Columbus in Central Park had its hands painted red and a sinister message warning “#somethingscoming” was spray-painted on the statue’s base.  That same day, protesters covered a Thomas Jefferson statue at the University of Virginia with a black sheet.  On Wednesday in Baltimore, a monument to Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled Banner,” was defaced with the words “Racist Anthem.”  On Thursday, Wall Street’s “charging bull” was covered in blue paint.

Conservatives and President Trump warned the vandalism of Confederate monuments was a slippery slope. Liberals scoffed.

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The differences were so obvious, we were told, that common sense would prevail.  It was the triumph of hope over experience.  Anyone who doesn’t line up with current progressive social mores is out.  The war isn’t on history; it’s on anything that isn’t specifically leftist — now, today, subject to change tomorrow.

There is no telling where this may go.  What will be needed to please the crowd next time.  It is almost like the Roman Circus, but without the animals being involved.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff