Really good piece.
At some point, you will have to draw a line the mob can't cross.
Democrats haven't been forced to make that decision yet; they may not enjoy it when that moment comes.
At some point, you will have to draw a line the mob can't cross.
Democrats haven't been forced to make that decision yet; they may not enjoy it when that moment comes.
"Not all slopes are slippery, but the one we find ourselves on is a plane of ice, covered with an oil slick, that is being shaken by seismic activity. Giving mobs space to destroy rarely placates them; instead, it whets the appetite."
"But racism is so interwoven with our history that there is simply no escaping it. If we have to confirm our opposition to racism by removing all figures associated with these evils, we can’t stop until the Washington/Jefferson memorials are taken down, or at least renamed."
"You may find the Stone Mountain carving either horribly magnificent or magnificently horrible, but the grandeur of it tells us something about ourselves and our past. How can it be that it was so recently the case that these men were considered heroes?"
"Yet the Stone Mountain memorial is, finally, just speech, albeit speech in service of a moral outrage. The response to misguided speech should be more speech, corrective speech...Stone Mountain and other monuments are today an opportunity to teach our children about racism."
"If we remove them, future generations will scarcely comprehend just how enduring racist iconography was, just how attached Southern leaders were to the Lost Cause...We should be brave enough to face up to our collective past rather than sweep it under the rug."
