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A terrorist act is the logical if extreme outcome of white supremacy and intolerance. Apparently, reasons this particular white supremacist gunman, 'if you can't own them, exploit them, or remove them, you kill them'.

— Brooks D. Simpson

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Once we understand that the flags in question are those of an army, we can have a more intelligent discussion about what those armies did, such as the fact that the Army of Northern Virginia was under orders to capture and send south supposed escaped slaves during that army's invasion of Pennsylvania in 1863.

Need I remind you that Stone Mountain and Birth of a Nation are also exercises in political correctness for their time, as are the inscriptions on the monuments erected by several southern states in honor of the service of their state’s Confederate forces at Gettysburg?

Erasing History? Monuments and Memory (2016)

Ranting about "political correctness" is best read as "I can't really deal with the merits of your interpretation, so I'll deride it largely because it doesn't reinforce my own preferences and prejudices."

Erasing History? Monuments and Memory (2016)

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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

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Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority—but as an inalienable right if practiced by a minority.

Ayn Rand The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution (1971)

Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.

Thomas Sowell

One of the strategies of racism is to confuse the victims into believing all their victories should be awarded to the oppressor.

Stokely Carmichael Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (1967)

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