And they said my warnings about a slippery-slope were ridiculous.https://twitter.com/peterjhasson/status/898288772235898880 …
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Seems more logical vs throwing up one's hands that the whole statue argument is over because some CNN commentators are going further
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I mean if the fear is slippery slope, shouldn't the goal be to find a limiting principle that would stop it from slipping?
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Lots of columns were written today on that. Here's onehttp://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-trump-statues-confederacy-20170816-story.html …
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Yes, that's what I'm saying. Nobody has to helplessly watch a Lee--->Washington slope. There are loads of arguments you can make.
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Yes, there are legitimate arguments to push back against this iconoclasm. But the first step is to realize the threat is real.
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If you're saying we can't make any distinctions at all once we're on a slippery slope, then you've preemptively ceded that ground.
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Of course not. That would be silly. I'm saying some prominent liberals don't want to stop with Confederates. Eventually, they'll come for...
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No, I get it. I've heard similar moral equivalences made on the Zinn-ite left. So it's especially jarring to hear them from the president.
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As a southern Democrat I would like to limit the removal of statues to the those who took up arms against America. I think that's fair.
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Adams didn't own any slaves. I understand Washington was man of his time, but others were better than their time.
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