Not that there's anything wrong with that per se. It certainly would never have occurred to me that I should be as critical of Palestinian war memorials as I am of the various monstrosities blighting New York, and not only because of colonial relations.
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
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> On 12/24/15 6:37 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> That is one
>> reason the "merely symbolic" demand that Princeton be cleansed of
>> Wilsonian
>> memorials is rather more than a "merely symbolic" demand.
>>
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> It's funny. I'm not very consistent on this topic, and I can never quite
> figure out why I go one way on some matters and not on others.
>
> In general I like to keep history in view, both the odious and the
> elevated, so I wouldn't particularly want to see all those awful Civil War
> memorials in Southern town squares torn down. I suspect this is partly
> because the *physical* traces of history command from me a particular kind
> of respect. Perhaps it's mere preservationism. Cromwell, a wonderful old
> guy, would have scoffed; but I remain sorry his boys did so much damage to
> Litchfield Cathedral, though I shed no tears for Charlie Stuart's neck.
>
> On the other hand there are things that bring out my inner icon-smasher.
> The Confederate flag is one of them. Nefas! It makes me blind with rage to
> see it.
>
> And Woodrow Wilson is another. I hate that man with a soul-devouring
> passion. I think we should grub him up out of his fancy neo-Gothic
> sepulchre in the Washington Cathedral and toss his loathesome bones into
> the Potomac, with anathemata following them. And Princeton should rename
> that normalien unit after The Victims Of Woodrow Wilson.
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