Scott Jennings, billed in Wikipedia as a "conservative commentator"😂, wailed in June last year that "removing Teddy Roosevelt's statue is the worst kind of pandering".
The statue (1939 - 2021) stood at the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History. Jennings goes on
When this national statue removal madness started, we were assured advocates were just after the Confederates. Why are we honoring traitors, they asked?
and explains that
Roosevelt was no Confederate. He was an American hero, a bold symbol of our nation's exceptionalism. He lived life to the fullest. He represents the best of us, not the worst.
The petard with which the hoisting is to be performed is already evident
I agree that Confederate statues shouldn't hold places of honor in America's government buildings, and was among the first Kentucky Republicans to call for the removal of Confederate President Jefferson Davis (a native to the Bluegrass State) from our state capitol -- something that finally happened in 2020.
The article conveys perfectly the plaintive bewilderment of the Energetic Narcissist Cretin who is the ubiquitous precursor of the Neuer Übermensch. He busily Signals his Virtue concerning the demolition of that which his Herd disapproves. It does not and cannot cross his mind that there might be any another Herd out there with an equally limited but slightly different mental apparatus, which will set about destroying different things. The slippery slope argument might one day occur to him, but there is no slope.
Poor Teddy,
he's not here to defend himself, so the weak-kneed politicians are more than happy to sacrifice him on the altar of wokeness
while Jennings' own combat with the shade of Jefferson Davis was presumably heroic.
And so of the more recently deposed statue of Edward Colston in Bristol
a Bristol councillor, Ray Sefia, said he could understand why the statue was targeted. “It’s like having a monument to Hitler,” he told the Bristol Post
which is akin to one standing in Antarctica saying "it's like Central Africa".
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