Absurdities on parade

Statues and monuments honoring Confederate generals and soldiers are part of history? Both sides are to blame for the violence in Charlottesville? Abortion is “our” Holocaust? The Voices page has been littered with these absurdities in recent weeks.

It seems even the often factbereft Bradley

Glitz was all riled up about equal protection being denied white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other scrapings from the bottom of the moral barrel who are now the darlings of the alt-right and the not-so-alt-right.

History is written in books. It is not a statue in a public park. Southern states initiated a bloody rebellion against their own country to protect and perpetuate the evil of slavery. The white majority who erected these statues honoring the Confederacy were the ones trying to change history.

There was violence on both sides in World War II. Do any of us doubt which side was right? Neo-Nazis and white supremacists spew hatred and incite violence and their apologists in the press and in the White House point fingers and whine when others retaliate.

Equating the Holocaust with women choosing to control their own bodies is the ultimate historical obscenity. Six million people murdered because of their religion, race or ethnicity. Burned in ovens after being tortured, starved to death and gassed. Genocide on an industrial scale.

I am not a woman, I am not a Jew, but I know the difference between legal abortion and the Holocaust. I can tell the difference between Planned Parenthood and the Third Reich. God help you if you cannot.

DAVID ELI COCKCROFT

Little Rock