Destroying History, New Priority of Extremist Leftists in US

[From article]
Today’s leftists are much like the zealots who attacked cathedrals during the Reformation, knocking the heads off statues, destroying relics, breaking stained glass windows and even stripping paint from church walls. The iconoclasts believed they were purifying the church from idolatry and heresy by so doing.
In like manner, the religion of the Left is seeking the destruction of symbols, statues and paintings representing what they believe to be an unmitigated racist world view diametrically opposed to the doctrines of the pure church of liberalism.
Consequently, what may be at stake is the distinct possibility of a panicky purge of the history of the American South. A purge is to be achieved by eliminating anything that calls forth memory of the Confederacy.
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the motives have always the same: destroy any offensive symbols of historical events that indicating beliefs differing from the reigning cultural powers. Only one viewpoint is to be permitted. Only “pure” symbols reflecting the viewpoint of ideologues is to be taught.
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The reasoning behind a potential purge of Southern history by an iconoclastic Left appears to be the hope that by eliminating the symbols of racism, the actual sin of racism will be expurgated. Racism can be eliminated by taking away the forms that give it substance. It is a matter of eliminating statues and flags, not a matter of changing hearts.
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Supposedly, by ridding the South of its icons, including the “Confederate flag,” the South will be cleansed of its past sins.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/06/purging_the_history_of_the_south.html

June 25, 2015
Purging the History of the South
By Fay Voshell