The Self-deluded Civil War Left

So the statue had barely hit the ground, viciously pulled down by domestic terrorists, when Kevin Levin went into Quick Gloat mode and posted about it on his flog. Of course, we can easily see his obvious motives by a perfunctory look-see at his whole flog ... I mean, he's not coy about it, and it's pretty standard fair for leftist judgmentalness.

But now and then, he betrays his deeper views, his less often revealed motivations. I've written before about my observations of these deeper views and motives, and my conclusions about them.

What he wrote about the terrorist activity at the U of NC again brings these usually soft-pedaled views to the forefront. Sometimes, civil war leftists make it so obvious,  you have to amputate half your brain to not see it....

F'rinstance, he can't get through the first paragraph sticking with the subject -- he has to deviate into Charlottesville and the recent dud of an anniversary march in D.C. This has nothing whatever to do with Silent Sam. In fact, the Unite the Right rally in 2017 had nothing to do with the monuments in Charlottesville; the rallygoers didn't care about those monuments, so the connection is a media concoction -- a hoax -- beginnig to end.

But here's the kicker. Sez Levin:

Silent Sam didn’t feel anything while being toppled over by students nor did he feel anything while the crowd kicked and spit on him. The same could not be said for the African American woman, who Julian Carr referenced in his dedication speech for the statue in 1913.

What Levin mule-headedly ignores is that Silent Sam represents and commemorates UNC students WHO DIED defending the Old North State. They weren't horsewhipped. They DIED. You know, as in DEAD.

But this comment of Levin's shows the convoluted thinking that feeds his desperate need for SOMETHING to justify his hatred of Southern white folks. Julian Carr's mistreatment of a black woman reflects on Julian Carr and nobody else. It does not reflect on the UNC students who became soldiers to defend their state from an invasion of barbarians wearing military uniforms. It does not reflect on Southern heritage folks today. But Levin is nothing if he is not a peddler of guilt-by-association (even when it is isn't true).

His current comments also illustrate his apparent belief that black misery existed in inverse proportion to Southern white evil. So, in his determination to paint white Southerners as evil as he possibly can, he paints blacks as miserable as possible. You see this motive all through Levin's writing.

I left a comment, knowing he wouldn't post it. Having my comment show up in the comment thread wasn't why I left it, anyway. I simply wanted him read it, so he would know he isn't fooling some of us. To my surprise, he let it through:

Wow! You went into Quick Gloat mode, didn’t cha? Oh, how you love anti-Confederate lawlessness…. The only person responsible for mistreating the African American woman was the person who did it. Dylann Roof is a crazy person, nothing he did should validate any sane person’s thoughts.

I’ll bet you think this rise of lawlessness indicates a “retreat” of Confederate heritage, don’t you?

Do you know how utterly dishonest your stands and pronouncements look to sane, well-adjusted people?

In a hilarious turn, the first comment following mine was from the repetition-bot Dimmy Jick....the first grader in an old man's body.  I had forgotten just how kneejerk and infantile Dimmy is; he can repeat "racist" "racism" "white supremacy" and all the phony buzzwords without a single neuron firing. Honestly, folks, I cannot figure how how Dimmy got a college degree, served in the military, and got a teaching job.

I won't post Dimmy's comment. If you've ever read one of his comments, you've read them all.

CliosFanBoy wants to know, "if these statues mark “heritage” where are the statues to the southern Union units and the USCTs??" Most monuments were put up by RELATIVES of Confederate soldiers.  If he wants to put some up to somebody else, nobody is stopping him.

Claudia Gibson (Confederate descendant) sez, "I think every Reconstruction era statue should be pulled down." As far as I know, few if any monuments were raised during reconstruction. Claudia further sez, "The point of these statues was to enforce the disenfranchisement of southern African Americans." Not according to the people who put them up, so I wonder how she knows this. Does find out by talking to the dead? Does she hold seances? Throw chicken bones? Claudia finishes, "The speech made at this particular statue’s dedication only enforces that." The speech made at the dedication reflects on the speaker and his beliefs, nobody else's.  What you are seeing here, folks, is the effect of leftist group-think. They are incapable of seeing individual responsibility. What one person does reflects on his whole "group" -- whatever the accuser conceptualizes that to be.

Brad sez, "Sometimes popular action is the only way to redress a problem." Thereby approving of mob violence.... (The statue wasn't the only thing these thugs attacked. Levin didn't mention that.)

Rob Baker shares an episode of anti-Confederate indoctrination he subjected his students to.

Sez Jerry McKenzie, "Silent Sam let a lot of injustice pass without a word." Thereby showcasing his own ignorance of the purpose of war memorials....

Ewan Wardle thinks connections with tyrannical rule has been dissolved. He must have gone to school with Dimmy.

But that's enough. These people do not have the moral high ground. They don't have moral ground at all. Their hatred of the Confederacy, the South and white Southerners is based on lies and self-delusion. It is most unfortunate that in once-free America, these dolts and deluders hold sway in government, the media, education and the popular culture. The country cannot survive their gut-deep dishonesty.