Resident libs...cancel culture and MLK

get a bulldozer in DC at the base of the MLK statue which is ironically carved out of white stone. place the blade at the base..... and see how quick they decide they really don't want all statues removed.

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You’re applying logic to an illogical or even a-logical movement.

Stop reasoning with them.

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This is the only position.

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I just want them to answer the question.

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Their framework doesn’t allow your question to penetrate their mind. I suspect a deprogramming expert could help.

And one I thought of today - Ali. Ali was a strident segregationist.

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Why don’t you know about MLK?

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Well, I never really thought about it. And, I haven’t had a chance to research his views on homosexuality.

Mind if I do some thinking and research instead of vomiting out a reaction?

As to your underlying theme — where do you draw the line? — that bears discussion. There is a point of absurdity. Where you place it depends on your point of view.

I have thought about Yale. If you are going to pull Lee’s name off stuff, you damn sure should take down old Elihu’s statue.

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If you are going to pull Lee’s name off stuff, you damn sure should take down old Elihu’s statue.

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Need to remove Rice's name off of Rice University. His will explicitly stated that the university would be "whites only".

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Gay is just a bad habit. Who knew.

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Well, offhand I do not see that as the moral (or immoral) equivalent of Elihu Yale's slave trading.

But I take your point.

The larger question is this: Many people who are deeply flawed have done significant and real things that have benefitted society at large. Which of those things do we forgive by continuing to honor them?

It is not an easy question. Right now, a significant part of our nation believes that we should not honor men who owned slaves or fought for the South in the Civil War. That is just where we are. And I don't disagree with it.

How far do you go down that trail? I do not know. But given the history (at least my version of it) of such efforts, it will likely go too far before the pendulum swings back. I don't see the "overswing" being all that harmful to our nation in the long run.

This weekend, I will recite the Declaration from memory. I do it every year. The words still stir me. This magnificent call to freedom was written (at least in first draft) by a man who owned 600 slaves and had sexual relations with at least one woman he owned.

America is an idea, not a man or a woman. I can honor the idea without needing statues of the sometimes terrible people who articulated the concept of liberty and brought it into being. Take down every statute of every person who ever had a statue. That won't really change America at all.