JAMES LILEKS’ WEDNESDAY REVIEW OF MODERN THOUGHT:

They can’t move the Washington Monument, but they can put up signs about slavery, and that will change people’s minds. Hope they hate him now! Don’t look up at this abstraction and feel anything but shame and boiling bile, topped off with self-reverence for being better than him.

This is the point where people incapable of holding two ideas simultaneously say “oh you care more about a stone pole than lives,” or some such gotcha that’s supposed to reveal me as a Nazi. Nailed it, bro! Every single piece of mental and physical energy spent on keeping the Washington Monument from being rebranded or “explained” by the humorless, ahistorical wokeoisie keeps Justice from happening. These are the same people who probably nod approvingly when the modern-day Jacobins roll up their home-made guillotines, and believe that the French got it right, and we got it wrong. Sure, we were founded in ideals that contained the liberation of all, and indeed forced it, if one was honest, but did we rename any months or shutter churches? No.

It’s as if their knowledge of the French Revolution ends with the Bastille doors thrown open, and a stream of jubilant social warriors imprisoned by Melania Antoinette pour forth, rejoicing, followed by a haircut for the oppressors — well, the neck has hair — and that was it! Then Great Justice and egalitarianism for all.

Read the whole thing. Incidentally, the latest chapter in this story has flashbacks to the aftermath of another revolution: “The WaPost cleanup crew in action. D.C. Mayor Bowser released a report recommending ‘the Federal government remove, relocate,or contextualize’ Washington Monument, etc. After pushback, Bowser removed that page–and the WaPost now pretends ‘remove’ and ‘relocate’ were never there.”