The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is continuing to attack anything related to the Confederacy, with the effective goal of wiping out any memory of that chapter of American history.
As a part of their revisionism campaign, the left-wing smear organization has listed over 1,500 locations of Confederate sites and monuments, encouraging activists to target them.
The list, according to CNS News, ranges from military bases and highways to statues and schools. After the riots in Charlottesville, the SPLC took to marking wherever Confederate symbols are located. They found a total of 1,503 across the country.
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Following the Charleston massacre, the Southern Poverty Law Center launched an effort to catalog and map Confederate place names and other symbols in public spaces, both in the South and across the nation. This study, while far from comprehensive, identified a total of 1,503.
More than 1,500 Confederate monuments stand in communities like Charlottesville with the potential to unleash more turmoil and bloodshed.
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These include:
- 718 monuments and statues, nearly 300 of which are in Georgia, Virginia or North Carolina;
- 109 public schools named for Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis or other Confederate icons;
- 80 counties and cities named for Confederates;
- 9 official Confederate holidays in six states; and
- 10 U.S. military bases named for Confederates.
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Their top ten offenders are all southern states.
1. Virginia: 223
2. Texas: 178
3. Georgia: 174
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4. N. Carolina: 140
5.Mississippi: 131
6. S. Carolina: 112
7. Alabama: 107
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8. Louisiana: 91
9. Tennessee: 80
10. Florida: 61
With this list of locations being published in full, I anticipate that there will be more demonstrations against anything having to do with anyone associated with the Confederacy, and that many of those demonstrations will end up in vandalism of those sites.
It’s already happened multiple times, and with many more of these places being specifically laid out for activists, no one should be surprised when more sites are attacked by left-wing mobs.
Again, as I have stated before, there are two separate conversations going on in this country. There is one that seriously seeks to address the issue of racial division in this country, yet does not want to eliminate the Confederacy from our history, for it is a part of our legacy.
Then there is an echo chamber in which anything remotely related to Confederate history should be destroyed in Orwellian fashion, where its memory is gone from the public eye. And they will do anything destroy anything they don’t like, even if that means sheer lawlessness and vandalism.
Civil discourse is required over this issue, not fearmongering like that from the SPLC. Did you see what they wrote in their assessment of these locations? That there is “the potential to unleash more turmoil and bloodshed”?
What a bunch of nonsense! The schools, roads, and statues are not the ones causing violence; people who are upset over them are. So we’re now putting the blame for violence on inanimate objects? Where have we seen that before?
If people riot and vandalize things, even these things that they do not like, they must be brought to justice. A civilized society does not tolerate such lawlessness.
Between the two dialogues, let’s choose the peaceful, level-headed former, rather than the violent and rage-filled latter.
