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This Way Lies Madness: The Summer of Hate Meets the Age of Intolerance

• https://www.rutherford.org by John W. Whitehead

... and our chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos. Violence isn't the way."—Martin Luther King Jr.

Marches, protests, boycotts, sit-ins: these are nonviolent tactics that work.

Looting, vandalism, the destruction of public property, intimidation tactics aimed at eliminating anything that might cause offense to the establishment: these tactics of mobs and bullies may work in the short term, but they will only give rise to greater injustices in the long term.

George Floyd's death sparked the flame of outrage over racial injustice and police brutality, but political correctness is creating a raging inferno that threatens to engulf the nation.

In Boston, racial justice activists beheaded a statue of Christopher Columbus. Protesters in Richmond, Va., used ropes to topple that city's Columbus statue, spray-painted it, set it on fire and tossed it into a lake. Columbus' crimes against indigenous peoples throughout the Americas are well known.

In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, protesters tore down a statue of Francis Scott Key, who penned "The Star-Spangled Banner." Key was also a slaveholding lawyer who tried to prosecute abolitionists vocally opposing slavery.


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