I gave up on Rich Lowry the moment he advocated the
release of Mitt Romney’s tax records.
At the time during the 2012 presidential campaigns it was a white hot issue. And like so many of the so-called conservative intelligentsia, Rich Lowry melted under the heat.
At the time during the 2012 presidential campaigns it was a white hot issue. And like so many of the so-called conservative intelligentsia, Rich Lowry melted under the heat.
In his latest column Lowry continues to wilt.
He writes:
The monuments should go. Some of them should be simply trashed, others transmitted to museums, battlefields and cemeteries. The heroism and losses of Confederate soldiers should be commemorated, but not in everyday public spaces where the monuments are flash-points in poisonous racial contention, with white nationalists often mustering in their defense.
More here
So in Lowry’s mind we need to yield to flashpoints
that could change on a moment’s notice? Sounds very much like
accommodation begging to be liked instead of standing firm for a belief.
Give up the tax records and give up the Confederate monuments. And when
the mob wants to blow up the White House because it was built by slave labor,
or tear down the Washington monument because he owned slaves, what will Rich
Lowry say then? Oh, wait a minute that’s different!
I don’t have a dog in the fight. I’m not a
Southerner. But, I have a problem with limiting free speech. And in
my opinion these statues are a form of speech. You may not like it but
one is free to stand in front of any statue and say why you think the person
was a miserable human being. Others may say different. However,
taking the statue down is a bad first step toward taking everything else
down. Free speech is gone!
Ronald Reagan believed the National Review was
required reading at the White House. But, with Rich Lowry running the
show, those days are long gone, like the Confederate monuments.
No comments:
Post a Comment