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| Nathan Bedford Forrest Wins A Rare Victory Over Cancel Culture |
| 2020-06-22 |
| [TownHall] - In 2020’s version of the Bolshevik Revolution, almost any statue or monument that predates or doesn’t explicitly honor the Civil Rights era is a potential target for being defaced, damaged, or toppled entirely, Taliban-style. ...However, while most conservatives will balk when leftists try to cancel Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and famous abolitionists, they have generally been pressured into ceding ground on anything relating to the Confederacy. Nobody is defending slavery today, but even those who have argued for these monuments’ retention based on historical reasons have mostly given up. ...Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, for example. A debate comes up every year over the bust that sits in the Tennessee Capitol building in Nashville. It wasn’t placed there by segregationists, but rather by a Democratic member of the Tennessee State Senate in 1973 - not to praise the bad things he did, but rather to acknowledge Forrest’s many accomplishments and prominent role in Tennessee history. In a rare break from the acquiescence to the left we’ve been seeing all over the U.S. of late, the latest attempt to have the bust removed failed in the Tennessee State House last week by a whopping 61-25 margin. Leftards really thought they can beat him just because he's dead? |
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