This powerful piece is worth reading. I rarely re-post other people’s stuff, but this is worth reading.
Today on Facebook, a friend of my uncle’s asked him, in all (apparent) seriousness:
“So what, a statue comes down, that person was a racist, they don’t deserve to be memorialized. But what next? A town is named after the same guy, do we change the name? Does it matter?
“Jefferson owned slaves, do we tear down the memorial? Rename the capital of Missouri? Void the Declaration of Independence?
“It sounds absurd I know but isn’t it the same thing? And if it’s different, what makes it that way?”
I’ve heard this before. The “Well, but where does it stop?” slippery-slope argument, which is a bullshit argument if ever I heard one. So I asked him if he had any friends who were Jews. He allowed as how he did. I should note that I give credit for the analogy I used to Kayla M. Cooley (you can find her…
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Thanks for sharing this re-post, Ron. He makes his point very well (and Wrestling with God looks like an interesting blog).
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You’re certainly welcome. His perspective is interesting, and his posts look interesting, too.
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