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Yet, predictably, the cultural Marxists, following Rahm Emanuel’s
dictum that you never let a crisis go to waste, descended like locusts.
As Roof had filmed himself flaunting a Confederate battle flag, the
cry went out to tear that flag down from the war memorial in Columbia,
South Carolina, and remove its vile presence everywhere in America.
Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post appeared front and center on its op-ed page with this call to healing:
“The Confederate battle flag is an American swastika, the
relic of traitors and totalitarians, symbol of a brutal regime, not a
republic. The Confederacy was treason in defense of a still deeper crime
against humanity: slavery.”
But if Jenkins’ hate-filled screed is right, if the Confederacy was
Nazi Germany on American soil, then not only the battle flag must go.
The Confederate War Memorial on the capitol grounds honors the scores
of thousands of South Carolinians who died in the lost cause. And if
that was a cause of traitors and totalitarians and about nothing but
slavery, ought not that memorial be dynamited?
Even as ISIS is desecrating tombs in Palmyra, Syria, the cultural purge of the South has begun.
Rep. Steve Cohen wants the name of legendary cavalryman Nathan
Bedford Forrest removed from Forrest Park in Memphis and his bust gone
from the capitol; Sen. Mitch McConnell wants the statue of Confederate
President Jefferson Davis removed from the Kentucky capitol.
Governors are rushing to remove replicas of the battle flag from
license plates, with Virginia’s Democrat Terry McAuliffe the most vocal.
Will McAuliffe also demand that the statues of Robert E. Lee and
Stonewall Jackson be removed from Monument Avenue in Richmond?
“Take Down a Symbol of Hatred,” rails The New York Times.
But the battle flag is not so much a symbol of hatred as it is an
object of hatred, a target of hatred. It evokes a hatred of the visceral
sort that we see manifest in Jenkins’ equating of the South of
Washington, Jefferson, John Calhoun, Andrew Jackson and Lee with
Hitler’s Third Reich.
What the flag symbolizes for the millions who revere, cherish or love
it, however, is the heroism of those who fought and died under it. That
flag flew over battlefields, not over slave quarters.
Hence, who are the real haters here?
Can the Times really believe that all those coffee cups and baseball
caps and T-shirts and sweaters and flag decals on car and truck bumpers
are declarations that the owners hate black people? Does the Times
believe Southern folks fly the battle flag in their yards because they
want slavery back?
