Why slippery slope arguments should not stop us from removing Confederate monuments
By Ilya Somin
August 15, 2017 at 10:28PM
via The Volokh Conspiracy http://ift.tt/2vCfG3A
«One crucial distinction it misses is that few if any monuments to Washington, Jefferson and other slaveowning Founders were erected for the specific purpose of honoring their slaveholding. By contrast, the vast majority of monuments to Confederate leaders were erected to honor their service to the Confederacy, whose main reason for existing was to protect and extend slavery.»