A history book chronicles the events of the American Civil War, a brutal war fought BETWEEN AMERICANS. The movement to remove Confederate (American) Statues recently ran into opposition at Charlottsville, Virginia where a protest agaisnt the destruction of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was met by a counter-protest. Was the counter-protest inspired by Anti-America ideology?
Yes, of course. Called “Antifa” meaning Anti-Fascist which is a far left ideology that’s in direct opposition to the far right ideology that decided to protest the removal of the monument to Robert E. Lee, the general of the army of the Confederate states. Neither group represents most Americans.
But the issue is the removal of Confederate statues. The removals are ill-advised and have served to disrupt America.
The issue is that black people are offended by Confederate statues because the Confederates supported slavery.
But Confederate statues do not offend by their presence. It requires a mind that decides it is being offended. The actual offense is in the mind of the beholder. The statue is inert. It is neither offending nor pleasing unless and until an individual decides and chooses to be offended or pleased.
Everyone in America has the right to be offended or not, but no one has the right to act simply because they are offended.
No one is telling anyone that they must like the Confederacy. No one is telling anyone they must hate the Confederacy either. The fact is there is no Confederacy. It ceased to exist at the end of the Civil War when the Confederate States were once again part of the United States.
the movement to destroy Confederate statues is as useful as a movement to destroy the Civil War. There’s no war to destroy. There’s no Confederacy to destroy. Neither the Civil War nor the Confederacy exist.
Those who support the destruction of offensive statues better not try to destroy the statues of saints which offend them. That would lead to an even worse war than the ill-conceived war on Confederate statues. Imaging people who object to Christianity destroying Christian symbols. Imagine they want to destroy the Washington Monument because Washington was a Christian,– Or to destroy the statue of Robert E. Lee because he prayed to a Christian God. What would you do? Whatever you decide to do informs your decision about the destruction of Confederate monuments.
You may be unfit to live in a free culture.
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