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Title: Justin Timberlake Says America's Founders 'Believed in' Racism, Calls for Statue Removals
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URL Source: https://www.westernjournal.com/just ... -racism-calls-statue-removals/
Published: Jul 8, 2020
Author: Andrew J. Sciascia
Post Date: 2020-12-07 12:26:59 by BTP Holdings
Keywords: None
Views: 403
Comments: 3

Justin Timberlake Says America's Founders 'Believed in' Racism, Calls for Statue Removals

By Andrew J. Sciascia

Published July 8, 2020 at 1:59pm

With professional athletics and box office films on hold amid the ongoing health crisis, Americans are more strapped for amusement than they have been in a generation.

Yet, as civil unrest persists following the officer-involved deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, folks left of center certainly seem to have found all the entertainment value they could possibly ask for, cheering the nationwide razing of monuments to figures from American history.

This week, however, a real “expert” weighed in from Hollywood. His word on America’s founders and figures of repute? It boiled down to this: “Baby bye, bye, bye.”

Esteemed pop musician and B-list actor Justin Timberlake joined with his fellow Hollywood leftists this week in decrying celebrations of the nation’s flawed history, forwarding claims the United States was created by men who “believed in” racism and “proudly owned and abused Black people.”

According to Timberlake, racism was a core tenet of the American experiment, rather than a heinous and inhumane normality of the times.

The Southern-born musical artist’s proposed solution to this premise was uninspired: to move forward with mass monument removal.

“A lot of you know I’m from Tennessee … a state that happens to be the home of many many confederate monuments,” Timberlake wrote in an Instagram post Monday. “I’ve been listening closely to the ongoing debates about what to do with these statues — and I really want to take a minute to talk about this.” ⠀ “There are roughly 1,848 confederate statues of in the US. More than half are in The South, and it’s not acceptable. No one should be protecting the legacies of confederate leaders and slave owners. If we plan to move forward, these monuments must come down,” the artist added.

“But let’s remember: Removing these statues does not erase our country’s vile history of oppression — removing them is a symbol of respect for Black people in America and it’s a step towards progress and actual equality for all.”

The post came complete with a video from the American Civil Liberties Union detailing the history of the Confederacy and the nation’s many monuments to its leaders, generals and combatants.

As with many left-wing social justice overtures, however, the post lacked boundaries.

Timberlake did not stop where common ground may, in some cases, be found: with considerations for the removal of Confederate monuments.

The Confederacy was a “nation” of traitors. Its very creation, following multi-state succession, fractured our fragile and beautiful union for decades to come.

Its subsequent attack on Fort Sumter was treason; nothing less. And its leaders’ arrogant unwillingness to work through peaceful political change within a representative democracy led to the deaths of more than 600,000 Americans.

In fact, these traits of the Confederacy — unyielding divisiveness and unprompted aggression — are forces antithetical to conservatism.

With that in mind, simple discussion surrounding the potential merits of removing celebratory monuments to the men of the Confederacy seems relatively inoffensive. There is, at least, room for that debate in the American political discourse.

But Timberlake and his compatriots trample any good will toward such a dialogue with their willingness to leave the door open to the removal of other monuments — monuments to figures like the Founding Fathers, for instance.

The social justice left does not simply stand in protest against enemies of the American social ideal. They stand in protest of America’s very foundation. Timberlake said so himself.

“When we protest racism in America, people think we are protesting America itself,” Timberlake also wrote. “Why is that the reaction? Because America was built by men who believed in and benefitted from racism. Plain and simple.”

For the social justice left, the goal is not a just society but a social utopia.

As a result, the bar for placement on any sort of societal or historical pedestal is not simply astounding accomplishment or vision, but modern sensibility.

The left assesses historical figures not by what was acceptable or exceptional according to the metric of their day, but of ours.

Of course, they lack the foresight to recognize they are in the process of creating a system by which no flaw may stand.

Today, we tear down yesterday. Tomorrow, we tear down today. The past is at the mercy of the present.

Let’s hope the social justice arbiters of tomorrow are more merciful — or before long we will go the way of the Confederates and the Founding Fathers.


Poster Comment:

I think Timberlake needs to move to California if he is not already there.

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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Justin, just stfu, loser.

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken

Lod  posted on  2020-12-07   13:46:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: BTP Holdings (#0)

Esteemed pop musician and B-list actor Justin Timberlake

I've never heard of the guy, and I'm pretty sure I don't know anybody who esteems him but stupid.

StraitGate  posted on  2020-12-07   19:23:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: StraitGate (#2)

I've never heard of the guy,

Count yourself lucky. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2020-12-08   8:33:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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