They’re not anti-fascists. Opponents of fascism wouldn’t have gone after Churchill’s statue. And opponents of slavery wouldn’t be going after General Grant who defeated the Confederacy.
Protesters in San Francisco on Friday toppled the statue of former President Grant, who led the Union Army during the Civil War, in Golden Gate Park.
San Francisco police said that approximately 400 people gathered around 8 p.m. to take down the statue, though no arrests were made, according to NBC Bay Area.
Of course they weren’t. And the media calls them “protesters”, instead or “rioters” or “thugs”.
There was once upon a time a cult of personality for Ulysses S. Grant resulting in quite a few statues and things named after him. But he, like all historical figures who weren’t Marxists or black nationalists, have to go now.
Claims of slavery are a pretext for this cultural revolution.
Grant was certainly far from a perfect human being. He was flawed in a number of ways, which made him more heroic. And he died, laboring over an autobiography that would support his family even as he was dying of a fatal illness.
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