Very good move by the University of Texas, which removed a bunch of racist Confederate monuments. Very good news for liberals, very bad news for conservatives, who want these monuments to stay.
University of Texas Removes Confederate Monuments
Do you think this changes any hearts & minds?
Or is this just a victory over your opponent?
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That you don’t get it comes as no surprise.
Meanwhile, in the real world of facts and the truth:
State and local governments have the right to control government speech, where government placing limits and restrictions on government speech in no way ‘violates’ the right to free speech or free expression (
Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015))
The relocation of ‘confederate’ monuments to more appropriate venues such as museums in no manner ‘erases’ history
As already correctly noted, the monuments were created not to ‘honor’ those who fought in the Civil War but as a means to intimidate African-American residents
Those who oppose ‘confederate’ monuments have no desire whatsoever to ‘silence’ neo-Nazis, white supremacists, or other rightwing bigots and racists