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In
what amounts to a sad commentary on the state of our cultural degeneracy, it
appears that we've decided the best solution to our social ills that we can
muster is the violent destruction of stone statues.
It's
not that I have any strong affinity for sculptures or busts, nor am I of the
opinion that many of those who receive them are worthy of such distinction. But
seeing Social Justice Warriors ramp up their militancy by declaring jihad
against a bunch of inanimate objects just proves to me that these people don't
have a clue how to really address the existential crisis facing our
civilization. I'm not even sure they know what the actual crisis
is.
But
desperate to "do" something, they become like the blind boxer hurling punches in
the dark just hoping to land one. Their allies in the equally clueless media
shamelessly liken their efforts to the heroes of Normandy or the liberators of
Baghdad; comparisons that are as unconscionable as they are
ignorant.
Still,
it is clear that toppling towers of dead men who once did bad things or thought
bad things will be this era's thundering contribution to making the world a
better place. In which case, the least I'd like to ask for is some intellectual
consistency.
Margaret Sanger was a vile degenerate. She believed in exterminating lesser human beings, inferior races, and the handicapped, and she set up a murderous organization called Planned Parenthood to do exactly that. Her legacy is the lifeless bodies of tiny innocent infants thrown out in the garbage bins. But for some reason she remains immortalized with a stone monument in the halls of the Smithsonian.
If
statues must come down of a man like Robert E. Lee, whose complicated views on
slavery at least included his labeling it a, "moral and political evil in any
country," so must all public enshrinement of Sanger. Her views on the "unfit"
race, or "human weeds" that needed to be "cultivated" in her "Negro Project"
weren't nearly so ambiguous, after all.
But
let's not stop with Sanger. If we're so committed to rooting out and destroying
white supremacy for the vacuous idiocy that it is, why are there no riots and
protests to remove the ramblings of Charles Darwin from our kids' textbooks and
the statues and exhibits we finance in his honor? Darwin believed and wrote in
"The Descent of Man" that dark-skinned Africans were inferior and closer to apes
than Caucasians.
Darwin's
defenders always dismiss his latent racism by declaring that he was merely a
"product of his time," oddly not granting that same excuse to Confederate
generals and southerners who lived at the exact same time. But if that's the
justification, it still doesn't explain how former recruiter and Exalted Cyclops
of the KKK, Democrat Senator Robert Byrd gets multiple statues. This is a man
who wrote in 1944,
"I
shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I
should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to
rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race
mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
It
could be argued that most slave owners held black Americans in higher regard
than Democrat icon Robert Byrd. Yet to this point, his legacy has gone untouched
by the social justice militants. Why?
And
this is only the beginning of course. Alfred Kinsey sexually molested and abused
hundreds of infants, toddlers and Kindergarteners as he attempted to induce them
to orgasm in disgustingly depraved "sex studies." But no one is setting Indiana
University on fire despite it honoring his perverted legacy with an entire
institute.
And
the list keeps going. So let's make up our mind, shall we? Every human is fallen
and in some degree reflects the sinful spirit of their age. This seems to leave
us with two options. First, we can move in the direction where we reject the
idea of building monuments to honor any man, expect the only One to ever live
who is actually worthy of our honor.
Or,
perhaps we could begin collectively teaching and understanding that monument and
statue building can be less about worshipping individuals who are every bit as
flawed, abhorrent, and sinful as we are, and more about acknowledging and
remembering the part key figures played in our country's epic struggle to create
a "more perfect union."
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