NR Daily: The Unbearable Lightness of Confederate-Statue Removal

To update an old joke, removing Confederate statues is a bit like wetting one's self in a dark suit: It offers a warm feeling but little of lasting value. The erasist frenzy to tear down Confederate monuments is accelerating at the speed of mob rule. What began in April with New Orleans's planned-if-ill-advised banishment of statues of Confederate president Jefferson Davis and generals P. G. T Beauregard and Robert E. Lee has devolved into vandalism. Hooligans in Durham, N.C., on August 14 toppled a statue of a graycoat from a pedestal, from which it crashed, crumpled, and was spat upon ...

August 24 2017

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