Leftist Cognitive Dissonance: Toppling Statues

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http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/why-people-want-to-get-rid-of-confederate-statues-as-explained-by-plato

> Toppling statues of Confederate heroes is not an attack on the American body-politic.
> Shows American revolutionaries toppling a statue of King George III.

And where would we without the obligatory Nazi appeal:

> Germans took down statues of Hitler
> Russians took down statues Stalin
> Therefore the heroes of one side of a nation that came back together after a vast civil war are all Literally Hitler.

Taking down or taking over significant edifices is what people do whenever they take over. It's really not so hard to understand.