Alexandria’s Christ Church — an Episcopal parish George Washington attended for more than 20 years — recently decided to remove a plaque honoring our nation’s first president that has been displayed in the church’s sanctuary since 1870.
Church leaders argued that the memorial to Washington made some “feel unsafe or unwelcome.”
Because one exists, and has existed, fully entrenched in our society and the other...doesn't, currently. One is worth an O Tempora! O Mores! post, but the other one isn't?
An under-appreciated feature of this thread and this broader discussion is that some of these reactions--and, yes, sometimes performative over-reactions--are in response to historical inequities and injustices that some folks just don't want to address or account for. So my best advice is to do some hard questioning of the whys and wherefores without falling back on pure knee-jerk ideological reaction.
Oh, ok. Now we're concerned about relevance to the topic. As opposed to when I was responding about gun violence in the gun violence thread and you shrieked at me for not addressing employment discrimination against conservative white men.
I'll try to do better.
I mean, you asked him why he brought it up when you compare it against something else crazy.
The something else crazy has nothing to do with this thread