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This is totally wrong, IMO.
1. There is a glaring difference between founders and confederates. Founders are celebrated for creating a system based on individual rights, but didn't fully live up to their ideal by abolishing slavery (and in some cases owned slaves themselves) https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1273945337988816897
1. There is a glaring difference between founders and confederates. Founders are celebrated for creating a system based on individual rights, but didn't fully live up to their ideal by abolishing slavery (and in some cases owned slaves themselves) https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1273945337988816897
2. Confederates are celebrated for rebelling against the nation the founders created in order to preserve slavery.
3. The mistake was to spend years defending confederate statues as something worthy of reverence instead of the moral equivalent of Nazi statues in Germany
3. The mistake was to spend years defending confederate statues as something worthy of reverence instead of the moral equivalent of Nazi statues in Germany
4. You don't fight one evil by defending another. You make the issue crystal clear: "We should lawfully take down confederate statues because we believe in the ideals of the founders."
5. @MattWalshBlog's policy violates my first rule of dealing with controversial issues: focus on what's right, not who's right.
