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Do you buy the concept of desecration? The idea of wishing to act upon that which others value, because you know it will dishonor or devalue that thing for them?
If you recognize this mode of behavior, do you think it is a good thing?
No, it is a humiliation that for many people, the founding fathers can only be respected if they are reimagined as black or Hispanic.
To the extent that I value the Founding Fathers, it is for specific reasons. If others value them for completely orthogonal reasons, that is not a victory for my values, and may in fact be a defeat.
To the extent that it was a symptom of the creeping racialization of American society, yes, it was in fact a humiliation.
Like our elections, amiright? ...Oh, shit, no, that's probably the super serious and absolutely unshakably real part that we're supposed to treat as sacred and beyond questioning, since that's the primary mechanism by which we keep the peace between ~350 million fractious, heavily-armed and not terribly sociable murder apes. I mean, you've correctly identified that the idea that we're some sort of common, cohesive culture and values-set to unify us is laughable, so it's a good thing we have indestructible, immortal rules-based systems that are impervious to defection or manipulation or loss of trust, right?
No, it's really not. And it's the sort of thinking you're displaying here that made that the case.
If we really are reducible to white Americans and black Americans, given that I'm not black, someone cheering for the black Americans isn't cheering for me or mine. This seems to me to be an absolutely fantastic reason not to reduce us to so ignoble a state as our race, and I will continue to resist all efforts to do so. That includes people deciding that the only way the Founding Fathers can be appreciated is if they're race-swapped and translated into rap.
One might be forgiven for observing that only a self-described "student of the humanities" would frame this fact as a hopeful, optimistic eventuality. Perhaps you should lean a bit harder on your history, and the record of how new tribes and nations and peoples usually affect those who came before.
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