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No Slippery Slope in Removing Confederate Statues

General Lee, not to be confused with young Officer Lee of the Corps of Engineers

While most of the attention of the media has justifiably been focused on one particular false moral equivalence, Donald Trump blurted out another commonly used piece of faulty assessment in yesterday’s press conference. I refer to the notion that the reasons for commemorating Washington and Jefferson are on par with the reasons for commemorating the likes of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

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