It’s been several years since the atrocity that was done to the Lion of Atlanta, but I saw this Instagram post about it recently, and I felt the need to share my thoughts.
“F*** your dead,” wrote the excuses for human beings who committed this atrocity. And of course, “BLM.”
The excuses for human beings also crossed out the word “Confederate” from the phrase “unknown Confederate dead” on the monument.
Translation:
F*** anyone who differs from us in any way. F*** anyone who differs from the norm, from the majority.
Only our lives matter. No one else’s. No one’s feelings, perspective, or viewpoint matters, other than ours.
Anyone who differs from us in any way needs to be erased from existence, as if they never lived at all.
Only bland, mundane people who conform to social norms and mindlessly comply with authority should be allowed to exist.
The only people who deserve to be honored, memorialized, or respected are those who look and think like us.
Those are the attitudes of the excuses for human beings who committed the atrocity towards the Lion of Atlanta.
And those attitudes are the antithesis of diversity, the antithesis of inclusion, the antithesis of tolerance.
I say:
F*** you, excuses for human beings who wrote these things.
F*** your contempt, hatred, and intolerance for anyone who differs from you in any way.
F*** your bigotry.
F*** your authoritarianism.
You demonstrate that supporters of the BLM movement are the real bigots, the real racists.
Our society should have unanimously and unequivocally condemned this movement the instant its slogan was found graffitied, alongside profane insults, on the Lion of Atlanta.
Yet despicably, our society did the opposite.
Society’s embrace of the movement responsible for this and countless similar atrocities is an injustice worse than words are able to convey; it is the worst injustice imaginable.