As American politicians cower before BLM, they get a lesson in courage from… France

[mystery-ak]

June 17, 2020
As American politicians cower before BLM, they get a lesson in courage from… France
By Thomas Lifson

I am sick at heart that our entire political leadership is cowering before mobs of vandals seeking to destroy our collective memory of the past.  But now, we see mob rule imitating the tactics of the Red Guards of China’s Cultural Revolution, who destroyed that nation’s precious artistic and literary heritage in the name of revolutionary purity, and the Taliban in Afghanistan, who blew up ancient Buddhist statues – to almost universal condemnation outside the Islamic world.

Slavery may be the ‘original sin” of America but until recent days, courage has been seen as more of an American virtue than a French one. But where is the condemnation of the vandalization of our historic artistic heritage by mobs tearing down statues, rather than following democratic processes and getting them removed to museums or less public display areas, which would be a perfectly reasonable solution to offense taken at honoring heroes of the Confederacy?

Did anyone ever expect that the President of France would teach a lesson in courage to the POTUS?

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[skeeter]

If Trump were to make a similar speech the rate at which our monuments are being torn down would accelerate dramatically and there is very little he would be able to do about it.