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Our monuments to the past: Victims of political correctness

On the topic of recent attempts to remove or even destroy Confederate war memorials as products of an "inherently racist culture.", Peter Tompa ("Preservationists Seek to Remove or Even Destroy Confederate Monuments", CPO August 18th 2017) says:

  there are distinct parallels between ISIS destroying "idolatrous" statues and monuments and efforts here to topple "racist" ones, not the least the motivation to deprive certain groups of artifacts deemed important to their culture (there Shia, Assyrian Christians and Yazhdis and here poor White people (who must be racist!)). At least here, we have processes in place to allow localities and States to make the decision what to do with our Confederate monuments. What must be avoided at all costs is another Durham, N.C., where a mob was allowed to take matters into its own hands.

American cultural values and american history are at stake, and as the President says there are good and bad on both sides of the dispute It is sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments, we cannot change history, but we sure could learn from it. The majestic beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks in the name of political correctness will be greatly missed and we will never able to be comparably replace it.

“Many of those people were there to protest the taking down of the statue of Robert E. Lee,” Trump said. “This week, it is Robert E. Lee. And I notice that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is it George Washington next? And is it Thomas Jefferson the week after? You know, you have to ask yourself, where does it stop?”