Mind-Boggling: America's statues "weren't desecrated or destroyed" — The Left Is Rewriting Its Mobs Tearing Down of Statues to Only a Desire to Put Them "into museums to commemorate the fallen during the Civil War"

The head is spinning! The propensity of the Left to rewrite history — ancient or recent, its own as well as everybody else's — is rarely anything less than mind-boggling.  The Leftists' latest rewriting of history concerns their mobs tearing down of America's statues in and around 2020:

When one leftist went berserk on Facebook regarding the fate of the White House's East Wing, I posted a Fox story quoting Sen. Josh Hawley. The Missouri Republican

replied that the far left has supported the destruction of statues of U.S. historical figures in recent years. 

 … "I hear all of a sudden from my liberal friends that they’re very concerned about our history. Really? These are the same people who tore down every statue they could get their hands on in the last four years," the lawmaker said. … "Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt. They didn’t have any concern for history then. Now, all of a sudden, they’re like, ‘Oh, the facade of the East Wing is iconic,'" Hawley said. "Oh, give me a break. I mean, give me a break."

That post of mine got two reactions. From Ann:

Statues are different than the White House and you know that.

So now, it's "just" statues (it wasn't "only" statues when y'all were tearing them down, they were symbols of America's intrinsic evil — including even… Northern statues!). And "you know that," you damn conservative, meaning that therefore you should just shut up! (Thanks for the hyperlink, Sarah.)

Wait, it gets better! From Dori:

we supported said statues be put into museums to commemorate the lost and fallen during the Civil War.  They weren't desecrated or destroyed in the process of taking them down.

You have just entered the twilight zone! Leftist mobs (dripping with patriotism?) removed the statues (respectfully? in a professional manner?) for the sole reason to… (respectfully?) place them inside (respected?) museums?! And only to honor America, her history, as well as both sides in the Civil War?!?!

To the first woman ("Statues are different than the White House") I replied

You're right Ann … : it's far worse!

before proceeding to quote the Bob Woodson interview at the very bottom of this post. To the second woman I answered with a news item about Hans Heg, an (anti-slavery) officer in the Union army whose statue was thrown into a lake, although not before being… decapitated [see also the Stonewall Jackson statue]. To Dori's contention that "They weren't desecrated or destroyed in the process of taking them down" I linked a news report about the Hans Heg statue, adding that

Of course they were Dori …

Statues were painted over, (unceremoniously) torn down, decapitated, and dumped in lakes, as hysterical mobs squealed in glee. I see that the left's rewriting of history and that their fairy tales are never far from the surface.

One observer who has made profound observations about the left and their tactics is NATE HOCHMAN. Last year, he noted that the anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox 

was occasion for gleeful crowing from the left-wing corners of the internet. “Happy Traitors Surrendering Day,” one young Virginia Democrat wrote. “F*** Robert E. Lee, f*** the Confederacy, and f*** their cause of treason.” A widely shared video featured a woman chugging “rebel tears” to celebrate the Confederacy “taking a fat f***ing L.” (Gratuitous vulgarity seems to be a feature of this discourse.) The famous left-wing hacker group Anonymous added, “On this day (April 9th, 1865) the Confederacy surrendered after getting it’s [sic] ass kicked.” 

Notice, incidentally, that the vulgar cheers recall the recent ones in the wake of the brutal killing of Charlie Kirk ("It Should Not Be Considered Free Speech" Says Karsenty of the Left's Anti-Kirk Rants; "It Is the Glorification of Terrorism"). In Undoing the Appomattox, HOCHMAN points out that what the Left is doing "is rewriting history. What are they giving themselves permission to do?" 

 … Today’s vulgar cheers have very little to do with the Civil War at all. Today’s gleeful celebration of Lee’s surrender is part and parcel of the same fervor that has sought to remove any positive commemoration of the Southern general and his counterparts from public life. It has nothing to do with the Confederacy, except insofar as the soiled memory of the Antebellum South can be mobilized to undermine, attack, and delegitimize Red America. The contemporary Left seeks to recast the white, conservative, Christian lumpenproletariat as the inheritors of slavery, segregation, and the numerous other crimes that have replaced men like Grant and Lee at the center of our new national mythology. 

 … This is the true meaning behind the gratuitous, jeering celebrations of Appomattox. It is not, as the anonymous X user Lunkhead noted, about “hating traitors” so much as it is about a fervent desire to punish contemporary enemies. Given the violent nature of the Confederacy’s demise, it’s reasonable to ask: Just what, exactly, are they giving themselves permission to do?

I foresaw this in 2015, when the Rebel flag was starting to get demonized (Another Brick in the Leftwing Activists' (Self-Serving) Demonization of America and Rewriting of History). Of course, as I have written in the past, the Confederacy really represented the Democratic Party, and when an ignominious Republican had the gall to win the election of 1860 (the Election of a Ghastly Republican to the White House, shades of 2016, 2020, and 2024), the Democrats went berserk, and for the next four years, these drama queens (called by Abraham Lincoln Fire-eaters and Locofocos) tore the country apart. 

As I quoted Bob Woodson, the founder of 1776 Unites, as saying, concerning the entire 1619 Project — check out The 1619 Project Summarized in One Single Sentence:

This is a fight against … the credentials of this country … slavery was a stain [beyond] which we moved … This is really a struggle for the soul of this nation. Lincoln [and the Emancipation Memorial] are a symbol of redemption, and the Left does not believe in redemption. 

… One of the steps of defeating truth is to destroy evidence of the truth. Because these statues, like the Emancipation Memorial, are evidence of America's redemption from slavery, it's important for [the Left] to remove evidence of the truth.

Related: From U.S. Grant and Union Soldiers Fighting the Slavocracy to John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, All Statues Must Come Down 

• What Caused Secession and Ergo the Civil War? Was It Slavery and/or States' Rights? Or Wasn't It Rather Something Else — the Election of a Ghastly Republican to the White House? 

• During the Winter of 1860-1861, Did the South's Democrats Obtain Their Aim — the Secession of 7 Slave States — Thanks to Elections Filled with Stealth, Lies, Voter Fraud, Intimidation, Violence, and Murder?

• Wondering Why Slavery Persisted for Almost 75 Years After the Founding of the USA? According to Lincoln, the Democrat Party's "Principled" Opposition to "Hate Speech"

• The Greatest Myth in U.S. History: Yes, the Civil War Era Did Feature Champions of States' Rights, But No, They Were Not in the South (Au Contraire) 

• A Century and Half of Apartheid Policies: From Its 1828 Foundation, the Democrat Party Has Never Shed Its Racist Past

• Harry Jaffa on the Civil War Era: For Democrats of the 21st Century as of the 19th, "the emancipation from morality was/is itself seen as moral progress"

• Why Does Nobody Ever Fret About Scandinavia's — Dreadful — 19th-C Slavery Conditions?

• The Confederate Flag: Another Brick in the Leftwing Activists' (Self-Serving) Demonization of America and Rewriting of History 

• How to Prevent America from Becoming a Totalitarian State

• Inside of a month, Democrats have redefined riots and election challenges from the highest form of patriotism to an attack on democracy — And by “democracy”, they mean the Democrat Party

• Why They Don't Tell You the Whole Truth:  The 1619 Project Summarized in One Single Sentence