Here's what a slippery slope isn't: a resolution to remove a specific statue. This is the opposite of a slippery slope.
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It's scope is limited. It is the result of months of process, which any other entity so empowered could start ay any time anyways.
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One city removing a specific statue does only that. It does not broaden the powers of other governments to remove statues.
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A slippery slope happens when a regulation intended to be applied to one thing or a set of things gets applied to unintended targets.
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The phrase you're looking for, when a city removes its Confederate statues and you're worried about others, is not "slippery slope."
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It is "white supremacy withering under the will of the people."
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I think of it as "incremental disasterization"
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