If they published it online, I would right now post to an interesting letter in the Economist from one Eliot Wisenberg of Chicago, which points out a historical incongruity of white supremacists marching for Confederate statues while chanting anti-semitic slogans — oh, “The Jews will not replace us” I guess it was.\u00c2\u00a0 General Robert Lee was friendly to the Jews and had Jews serving in the Confederate army; Ulysses Grant — as a general — didn’t and wasn’t.\u00c2\u00a0 (Though he had a mea culpa by the time he got to the Presidency.)<\/p>\n
Googling into the news, and indeed simple googling, brings us some details<\/a> such<\/a>.<\/p>\n What does this mean in terms of the statue controversy?\u00c2\u00a0 Only that some people universally believed as morons are indeed morons.<\/p>\n Strutting into a history of history… In the same issue of the Economist, we find this statement, on a disconnect from “roots”: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If they published it online, I would right now post to an interesting letter in the Economist from one Eliot Wisenberg of Chicago, which points out a historical incongruity of white supremacists marching for Confederate statues while chanting anti-semitic slogans — oh, “The Jews will not replace us” I guess it was.\u00c2\u00a0 General Robert Lee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16746,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16745\/revisions\/16746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nToday, the rebel cause stands for a chin-jutting screw you all kind of conservatism<\/em>.
\nYeah, but that statement could have been published in 1950 when periodicals noted a vogue for the flag.<\/p>\n