I have listened with great interest to the rhetoric concerning the removal of Confederate monuments and the demonstrations about such actions.
The problem is that all this just does not go far enough. We must not just destroy in order to save, we must address the hearts and minds of the Philistines.
We are ignoring the greatest danger of all, especially to our children: books and, to some extent, film.
Take Gone with the Wind as an example of a hideous glorification of the antebellum south and the lamentation of its passing. I heard our august Senator Patrick Leahy state unequivocally that all those who fought for the Confederacy were traitors.
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