Progressives’ cancel culture unimpeded by facts
Decapitate Christopher Columbus? It had to be done.
You tolerant, super-smart Boston progressives can’t allow a statue of the man who brought slavery to America to stand in the center of your city. It’s an outrage! The mob must pull him down, and you must join them. Otherwise, you’re part of the problem.
So grab a brick and hurl it. And after Columbus? Why Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, of course. You can’t have monuments to these slave-owning monsters. Jefferson Memorial? Gone. Washington Monument? Buh-bye.
Washington, Jefferson and Andrew Jackson should be removed from our currency, too.
But beheading Columbus and toppling Tommy J. is just the beginning. Are you really going to put up with having our nation’s capital in “Washington, D.C.”? Washington’s bad enough, but where do you think the “C” comes from? As Wikipedia reports, “the federal district was named Columbia (a feminine form of ‘Columbus’)
That’s right: “D.C.” isn’t just racist — it’s sexist, too.
Which is perfect, given that it’s the capital of a racist, sexist nation. Again and again, protesting progressives remind us that, since 1619, America has been “built on slavery.” Our entire nation is itself nothing more than a multi-state monument to racial hatred, violent oppression and white supremacy.
Forget statues and monuments and money: How can you progressives even bear living on this land?
The brilliant minds behind the Seattle protests have it figured out. They’ve declared their own sixblock Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), separate from, and morally superior to, the America they’ve left behind. “Over the past few days, hundreds have flocked to the CHAZ to protest, create art, make music, and socialize,” Time reports.
“It’s not a rave. It’s not a festival,” insisted artist Maury Diakite told Time. “It’s decent, honest, hardworking people that don’t want people getting hurt by the people that are supposed to be protecting them.”
Instead, the people protecting the CHAZ are, according to Seattle police, armed guards surrounding the perimeter. And residents who live within the boundaries are “forced to show ID to prove you ‘belong’ there,” a law enforcement official told Fox News.
You might say this is reminiscent of President Trump’s fenced-and-fortified southern border that progressives so passionately hate.
Then again, you could also say that blaming Columbus for importing slavery is crazy, too. After all, indigenous Americans were practicing slavery long before Europeans came ashore.
You could throw in the fact that the 18th century world Jefferson and Washington inhabited was full of slavery, sexism and untold social sins that are unacceptable today. That founding a nation on individual liberty and the rule of law, however imperfect it may be, was far more radical than the CHAZ-er-size going on in Seattle right now.
Yes, you could say all that and more — if you were a hate-monger.
Progressives are certainly never going to acknowledge any of these facts. (First rule of progressivism: No truth is too inconvenient to be ignored.)
Instead, they’re going to dismiss data and evidence as their own form of oppression.
And anyone who insists on arguing based on facts — the relatively low number of police shootings of unarmed suspects, etc. — will be labeled an agent of hate for even asking the question.
In the end, pulling down statues and promoting censorship won’t be enough. The only way to truly escape your guilt, my progressive friends, is to leave America entirely.
Sorry, but you have no choice.