UW-Madison students call for removal of Lincoln statue

[The Magistrate]

74. The Confederate Flag, Sir, Is Not A Statue Of Abraham Lincoln

Your crusade against statues is iconoclasm in its literal sense, a drive to remove depictions of persons to prevent idolatry.

If you look at this discussion and conclude that the opinion you are pressing in this matter has much support here on a left forum, there is really not much to say to you. What is being discussed here has nothing to do with your personal popularity, or with any thread you may have posted previously. The subject is whether there is any good point to removing a statue of President Lincoln, as urged by a handful of activist students, and by extension whether such iconoclasm directed against figures widely revered by the populace is or is not something either a popular movement against murderous police, or a national election campaign, will benefit from.


"The varied superstitions of the empire were regarded by the people as all equally true, by the philosophers as all equally false, and by the officials as all equally useful."