Quote Originally Posted by Johnnny5 View Post
This is the right call, but something tells me they'll bow to the mob pressures shortly. Men such as Lewis Cass should be honored for their great accomplishments and only judged by the moral standards of the times in which they lived. ...snip...
The statue 'deplatforming' has little to do with slavery or accomplishments. Its about being 'you'.

The whole 'woke' movement isn't quite what it seems. And I'm just beginning to understand what it is. So far, it mostly looks to me like a galvanizing action. Make people take sides. Are you with us, or against us. Oh, you're against us? So you're a racist. You are bad. Cancel you. I hate you because your racism is violent hate. And your racist because your system produces fewer black PhD physicists.

It doesn't matter what Cass did or didn't. It matters that wokesters want to control what 'you' can and can't express.