Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that liberals should not treat Antifa members as heroes for tearing down Confederate monuments because they are trying to “tear down America.”
“Do not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues. Many of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying to tear down America. Antifa is a radical, anti-America, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard-left sensorial organization that tries to stop speakers on campuses from speaking,” Dershowitz said on “Fox & Friends”
“They use violence. Just because they are opposed to fascism and to some of these monuments, should not make them heroes of the liberals,” he added.
Dershowitz warned there is a danger to tearing down these monuments because it creates a slippery slope regarding what is acceptable and what is not.
“Of course there is a danger of going too far,” Dershowitz said. “There is a danger of removing [George] Washington and [Thomas] Jefferson and other Founding Fathers who themselves owned slaves.”
He compared the movement to remove Confederate monuments to Josef Stalin, and accused the agitators of trying to...
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It appears Islamists have something in common with statue vandals besides an ideology that justifies political violence and a rabid hatred of free expression: the desecration of historic monuments.
In the wake of the Charlottesville riots ostensibly triggered by the removal of a statue memorializing Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a rash of vandalism against historical American figures has hit the country. Monday, someone took a sledgehammer to a 200-year-old Christopher Columbus monument in Baltimore.
In Durham, of course, last week a mob toppled a Confederate statue last week while police stood by taking pictures.
In California on Thursday, a statue of Junipero Serra was defaced with red paint and the word “Murder,” as well as a swastika.
Duke University officials removed a statue of Robert E. Lee from the campus chapel Saturday after vandals knocked off parts of his face.
The Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC was vandalized with the words...
