How can the removal (or destruction) of
any external object purge the human psyche of a disgraceful mind-set
like racism?
Recall that all history is a series of
discrete events locked in time: unchanging and unalterable.
Therefore, today's revisionist fervor directed at America's
antebellum past is misguided. Like amber dating back 100 million
years to the mid-Cretaceous period (proving Tyrannosaurus rex had
bird-like feathers), would it be right to destroy a specimen simply
because the subject could evoke some existential human dread of
prehistoric monsters? An absurd example that makes an important
point: Confederate statuary, like dinosaur bones, only demonstrate
the existence of a thing. Yet, meaning is inherently fluid: applied
in the now by the living.
To eradicate historical artifacts in
the name of progressives' “progress” is jackbooted fascism. It's
the real-life manifestation of George Orwell's “1984”.
Specifically, Big Brother is the identity politics-obsessed
Democratic Party. Their creature is the violently inflamed street
mob: faceless, mindless and everywhere. One prominent example is
Black Lives Matter who on August 29, 2015 publicly proclaimed, “Pigs
[cops] in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.” On CNN, this lawless
group was praised by Georgetown University sociology professor
Michael Eric Dyson who said Wednesday, “The people that we claim,
Black Lives Matter, the antifa movement, and so on, are interested in
preserving the fabric of America.” So, exactly how does a
cop-killing advocacy group “preserve” American society?
Democrats demonize today’s law
enforcement officers—simply for wearing a uniform (and perhaps
carrying a gun)—as indiscriminately as long-dead American icons.
Telling examples are found in the murder capital of Chicago. Instead
of spotlighting the skyrocketing death toll, the aggrieved and
clueless like Bishop James Dukes, pastor of the Liberation Christian
Center, has asked the mayor's office to remove monuments to two U.S.
presidents including Founding Father George Washington. Even worse,
a Chicagoean malcontent has vandalized a giant bust of Abraham
Lincoln—our slavery-abolishing 16th president—with a
flammable spray. Thusly, President Trump's Thursday Tweet is
prescient, “Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson—who's next,
Washington, Jefferson? So foolish.” What's foolish is in the name
of “tolerance”, the intolerant constantly attack the undeserving,
then as now, as “racist” bogeymen.
Anti-American anarchists populating the
left thrive by causing chaos and disruption. Their whack-a-mole
strategy is based on a fundamental flaw of reasoning: that the
inanimate—especially what they label triggering symbols—can be
blamed for flawed human choices that constantly mold society. Hence,
their fascist impulses to prohibit what's objectionable only to them:
guns, cops or Confederate figures. Yet, none of these groupings
automatically cause problems. In truth, almost anything physical can
be weaponized. For instance, would Virginia be wise to ban all cars
because one crazed individual, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, killed
Charlottesville resident Heather Heyer, 32, with his silver Dodge
Challenger?
What plagues our culture are Democrats
who exploit various tragedies for their own divisive political ends.
They don't see the evolved reality of the melting pot that is 21st
century America. For them and their followers, individual
responsibility is nonexistent. Instead, liberals promote victimhood
narratives—eagerly embraced by those easily manipulated by
fictional offenses—to incite actual violence.
Simply as a record,
history deserves to be protected because all men are fallible, and
wrongdoers exist in every age. The mistake our generation is making
is focusing on them instead of their hateful modern-day equivalents.
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