No say it isn't so. Even you don't know the difference between Washington and Lee? The Idiocracy has begun!
No, cpwill has a point. I always say while I hate
doing philosophy I respect the field of philosophy, it teaches you how to think more clearly. Logic is a branch of philosophy and all branches of philosophy, as well science, draw upon logic. Logic and math are closely related.
Anyways, emotional appeals are not appeals to reason.
There are differences between Washington and Lee (but then no two humans on earth are exactly alike, not even identical twins) but there are arguably similarities too. George Washington did profit off of a tortured based business in the United States. The enslavement of black people and the ownership of a plantation.
Personally, I'm biased
against the Confederacy, their monuments, and their symbols. I really have no love for them. I can tolerate them like I tolerate anti-Christian leftist and anti-Christians on the right.
But this whole thing got me to thinking--thinking about a relation to religious statues, art, and monuments I never thought of before: iconoclasm. I've only ever associated that word with opposition and even destruction of religious art and monuments. Like the Muslim Taliban blowing up and destroying a large Buddhist mountain carving of Buddha or a thousand years old. I'm not even Buddhist and the complete obliteration (not even theft and relocation--at least the art remains) of such an ancient work of art hurt my heart. In a certain way old things like that belong to all humanity. Certainly mostly to Buddhist but nonetheless to the rest of us that can view it.
So, I googled up the word iconoclasm, and I see it can be used in the
political realm too.
Iconoclastic - definition of iconoclastic by The Free Dictionary
i·con·o·clast (ī-kŏn′ə-klăst′)
n.
1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions.
2. One who destroys sacred religious images.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm
Iconoclasm[Note 1] is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of usually religious icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons. Over time, the word, usually in the adjectival form, has also come to refer to aggressive statements or actions against any well-established status quo. It is a frequent component of major political or religious changes.
I know the left generally champions American Satanist anytime they want to build monuments like this:
Detroit'''s Satanic Statue Has A Political Point to Make | Time.com
Hundreds Gather for Unveiling of Satanic Statue in Detroit
Nash Jenkins
Jul 27, 2015
I'm 200% intolerant of Satanic statues. I can tolerate Confederate statues, Buddhist Statues, feminist statues etc.... but I'm all for taking a sledge hammer or explosives to Satanic monuments. Particularly when they have glee over showing images that they are targeting
children.
But I'll be turn a iconoclast of Confederate statues if the left will agree to become iconoclasts of Satanic statues and protect the Christian symbols of the historical USA.
