Sacrificing Statues to a Godless Creed

Lots of statues being torn down across the United States. Some Fox News commentators complain that many such statues are of abolitionists. Don’t the BLM and Antifa mobs know their history, they ask quizzically? Well, no they don’t, as it happens, but what they do know is that the statues are of white men. In fact, with few exceptions, statues are mostly of white men. Why is that? It’s simple.

White men of the past made the modern world. They abolished slavery, which had existed since the dawn of time; they gave us basic freedoms, with enduring institutional arrangements to protect those freedoms; they gave us creature comforts and gadgets we now take for granted.

You might have noticed that I didn’t say white people. I could have been more sexually sensitive but it would have been subterfuge. Truth is, it was overwhelmingly white men. I have no idea whether it might have been women or brown or black or Asiatic people in different circumstances. But it wasn’t.

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