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Slack.com slash DHQ. So a bunch of students tore down a Confederate

monument at UNC Chapel Hill this week. And the media calls these people protesters, but

they really are just vandals and criminals. Whatever you think about the Confederacy,

it is felony vandalism to destroy a statue like that. But this is the precedent that we've

set over the past few years. It's a very dangerous precedent in my view, where if you don't

like a statue, well, then go ahead and just tear it down. The law is going to step to

the side and allow felony destruction of property to occur without doing anything about it.

Now that said, I have no problem with this specific monument coming down per se. I think

this, we can't lump all Confederate monuments together. Not all Confederate monuments are

equal. This one was erected in, I believe, 1918 or somewhere around there. And it was

clear from the beginning that it was associated with white supremacy. So yeah, take it down.

Now I still don't think that a school should stand by and let students do it themselves

because that's a crime and you can't have that kind of chaos and you can't allow students

to just go, well, I don't like this. And so they take it out. And I still don't think

we can lump all Confederate monuments together. I think we have to take it on a case

by case basis. And there are several problems with the precedent that we're setting here

and that has been said over the last couple of years when it comes to these monuments,

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