Forget the Confederacy, Now Social Justice Warriors Go After Union Statues

The Resurgent

"Anyone who thought last year’s war on Confederate statues was a passing phase doesn’t know Social Justice Warriors very well at all. They are continuing to push us into an era where if you aren’t feeling aggrieved, offended, or persecuted, you aren’t doing your part for “justice.”

"And now, the statue of a former Union Civil War soldier and one of America’s more effective presidents, William McKinley, is meeting the same fate as stone Robert E. Lee did just months ago:

• "No other city has taken down a monument to a president for his misdeeds. But Arcata (California) is poised to do just that. The target is an 8½-foot bronze likeness of William McKinley, who was president at the turn of the last century and stands accused of directing the slaughter of Native peoples in the U.S. and abroad.
• "Put a rope around its neck and pull it down," Chris Peters shouted at a recent rally held at the statue, which has adorned the central square for more than a century.

"By “directing the slaughter of Native peoples,” the left-wing activists in Arcata don’t mean that McKinley was intimately involved with killing anyone, but that he was a proponent of westward settlement which they say resulted in natives being “savaged, raped and killed.”

"You might be like me and find that to be a tenuous stretch at best, an unfair and inaccurate accusation at worst. But the notoriously liberal enclave of Arcata (their city council is majority Green Party) has already made up their minds:" . . .