Pete Buttigieg: Erasing Thomas Jefferson’s Name ‘Right Thing to Do’

[Right_in_Virginia]

Pete Buttigieg: Erasing Thomas Jefferson’s Name ‘Right Thing to Do’
Breitbart, May 17, 2019, Joshua Caplan

Appearing Friday on The Hugh Hewitt Show, 2020 Democrat White House contender and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said events bearing President Thomas Jefferson’s name should be renamed, calling it the “right thing to do.”

A partial transcript is as follows:

HUGH HEWITT: Let’s go to policy now. A very blunt question because you talk about going to every Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Indiana when you were running statewide. Should Jefferson-Jackson dinners be renamed everywhere because both were holders of slaves?

MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG: Yeah, we’re doing that in Indiana. I think it’s the right thing to do. You know, over time, you develop and evolve on the things you choose to honor. And I think we know enough, especially Jackson, you know, you just look at what basically amounts to genocide that happened here. Jefferson’s more problematic. You know, there’s a lot to, of course, admire in his thinking and his philosophy. Then again, as you plunge into his writings, especially the notes on the state of Virginia, you know that he knew that slavery was wrong.

HEWITT: Yes.

BUTTIGIEG: And yet, he did. Now, we are all morally conflicted human beings. It’s not like we’re blotting him our of the history books or deleting him from being the founding fathers. But, naming something after somebody confers a certain amount of honor. The real reason I think there is a lot of pressure on this is the relationship between the past and present that we’re finding in a million different ways that racism isn’t some curiosity out of the past that we’re embarrassed about but moved on from. It’s alive, it’s well, it’s hurting people and it’s one of the main reasons to be in politics today is to try to change or reverse the harms that went along with that. We better find ways to live out and honor that principle.

Audio at link:
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[Bill Cipher]

Idiot

[Wingnut]

Idiot

Agreed.  A Big time Idiot.

[kevindavis007]

Erasing his campaign would much better.

[skeeter]

Idiot

Gee it woulda been nice if Hugh stood up for our common heritage & challenged Mayor Buttgig on his silly POV.

I'm beginning to think the left is gonna pull off this elimination of American history. Which of course has nothing to do with correcting past injustices and everything to do with the typical socialist tendency to replace others political icons, political ideals, with their own in order to smooth the transition to socialist authoritarianism.

[dfwgator]

I will say though, we need these clowns to keep pulling Biden to the Left.

[austingirl]

I wonder if Chris Wallace will ask Buttdigger about this tonight in-between the softball questions.

[Fishrrman]

skeeter wrote:
"I'm beginning to think the left is gonna pull off this elimination of American history. Which of course has nothing to do with correcting past injustices and everything to do with the typical socialist tendency to replace others political icons, political ideals, with their own in order to smooth the transition to socialist authoritarianism."

I'm not a betting man, but if I was, I'd bet on your prediction.

I know it's been posted before, but a quote from Mr. Orwell:
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped.
Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

[Absalom]

A nobody of less than zero achievement wants to erase Jefferson;
a mover and shaker instrumental in our independence from Britain
who later served two notable terms as Potus.
That the audience did nor urinate on the mouthy homosexual
says volumes about the jackasses we tolerate in politics.

[Night Hides Not]

Gee it woulda been nice if Hugh stood up for our common heritage & challenged Mayor Buttgig on his silly POV.

I'm beginning to think the left is gonna pull off this elimination of American history. Which of course has nothing to do with correcting past injustices and everything to do with the typical socialist tendency to replace others political icons, political ideals, with their own in order to smooth the transition to socialist authoritarianism.

Hugh Hewitt remains a huge Romney fan. I don't expect him to ever challenge anyone on the basis of principle.