Jere Krischel
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

I think you can keep existing statuary in place, and make it educational.

Now, of course, there will always be people who will ignore the educational content and see it as glorification, and there will always be people who are perpetually offended and will always see it as oppression — but those two extremes aren’t the basis of a civil society.

Our history is rich, complex, and does not deserve to be censored or hidden, nor driven by the pearl-clutching or the bigoted. If the KKK changed their flag to the rainbow LGBT flag, would we ban rainbows? If the Nazis decided that they would venerate MLK, would we start tearing down monuments commemorating the civil rights era?

Frankly, this destruction of statuary smacks of Sharia prohibitions on idols — it is amazing how a far-left identity politics ideology can provoke far-right islamic behavior.

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    Jere Krischel

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    Socially liberal, fiscally conservative, born again carnivore, musician, firearms instructor and skeptical civil rights activist.