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Sunday, August 20, 2017

Goodbye Columbus

There was a demonstration today in Detroit seeking the removal of a statue of Christopher Columbus from a spot downtown.  Columbus has to go because he stands for white nationalism, or so the protesters say.  I'm sure that were he alive today, Columbus would be quite shocked at being labeled a white nationalist.  He was an Italian who convinced the Spanish throne to finance an expedition to establish a trade route with the far East by sailing westward around the world.  Instead of getting to China or India, he hit the Americas instead.  In subsequent voyages, Columbus found additional lands and established a Spanish claim to them.  He brought Europeans to the Americas.  It wasn't a white nationalist movement but rather a Spanish one.

In the current war against Confederate statues, there is, at least a rationale that the Confederacy wanted to preserve slavery.  If the statue war expands to hit people like Columbus, there is no rationale possible to make real sense of it.  Don't get me wrong; the double talk from the crazy left will tell us how this new move has something to do with the patrimony or the colonialist movement (even though this was prior to colonialism).  No amount of double talk will provide anything worth discussing.

Today, those running the war on statues officially lost their minds.

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