{"id":16670,"date":"2020-06-15T08:43:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=16670"},"modified":"2020-06-15T08:43:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:43:20","slug":"when-anti-fascism-means-opposing-abolitionists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/06\/15\/when-anti-fascism-means-opposing-abolitionists\/","title":{"rendered":"When \u201cAnti-Fascism\u201d Means Opposing Abolitionists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In order to push the narrative that \u201cWhiteness\u201d=\u201cOppression\u201d, it is necessary to erase the\u00a0 inconvenient truth contrary thereto. And what better way to do that then to desecrate a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia-protests-matthias-baldwin-statue-abolitionist-twitter-photos-20200612.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statue<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1270967129370550273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Matthias<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiamSD12\/status\/1270993353685991425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baldwin<\/a>, an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ar15m4mid\/status\/1271062921930584066\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abolitionist<\/a> who also directly funded and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baldwinparkphilly.org\/matthias-baldwin-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">supported schools for Blacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16671\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mattias-Baldwin-Statue-Desecration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mattias-Baldwin-Statue-Desecration.jpg 843w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mattias-Baldwin-Statue-Desecration-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mattias-Baldwin-Statue-Desecration-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Why desecrate this statue of someone who <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/park-volunteer-outraged-over-vandalism-162539906.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">actually believed that Black lives mattered<\/a>? Because it is a reminder that at its core, America <em>is<\/em> good and that slavery was something at odds with that, and would never last.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This isn&#8217;t even the only example of a statue of an abolitionist being vandalized, as can be seen by the case of this statuue of abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Greenleaf Whittier 1807-1892 another one of my dad&#39;s distant cousins (2nd cousins 7x removed) was desecrated &#8211; he was a prominent Abolitionist. Why he deserves this treatment I will never understand. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/13WVRz5FvW\">https:\/\/t.co\/13WVRz5FvW<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uKBheakAt5\">https:\/\/t.co\/uKBheakAt5<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d7XSOxEMId\">https:\/\/t.co\/d7XSOxEMId<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/caqyCklrKC\">pic.twitter.com\/caqyCklrKC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roland Baker (@RolandBakerIII) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RolandBakerIII\/status\/1272306024985186305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is an evil ideology it is when the abolition of slavery is considered a sin worth condemning someone for\u2026 at least when the \u201cWhite man\u201d does it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Or perhaps some people do find it racist, and find it to be symbol of White Paternalism. And so it goes: Support slavery and racial oppression, and you are evil; do nothing and you are supporting the \u201csystem of oppression\u201d that is society; actively support the rights and dignity of those who are Black, and you are oppressing by treating them like children under oppressive paternalism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is all about the narrative: \u201cWhiteness\u201d must always be seen as <em>the<\/em> evil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But this goes beyond just Baldwin. In Portugal, a statue to Padre Ant\u00f4nio Vieira was vandalized, despite his <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200611212218\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhostMro\/status\/1271183356299038720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">active opposition to slavery<\/a> and the inquisition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;These desecration have gone so far as to graffiti a memorial to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smithmarion\/status\/1267866869681324039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">millions upon millions<\/a> of people killed by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smithmarion\/status\/1267867112095260673\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Communism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(2\/2) The culprits are not yet known. The site has been targeted by socialist extremist and Antifa groups in the past. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YGSEwiCa4e\">pic.twitter.com\/YGSEwiCa4e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Marion Smith \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@smithmarion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smithmarion\/status\/1267867112095260673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nothing better demonstrates that these little monsters don\u2019t care about oppression, but only in pushing their evil ideology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Destroy the old world; Forge the new world&quot; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CulturalRevolution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CulturalRevolution<\/a> poster from 1968. The brave new world created by Mao and his henchmen had an estimated death toll that ranged from hundreds of thousands to 20 million. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kKKSML1fYG\">pic.twitter.com\/kKKSML1fYG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; nick \u0646 \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\udf10\ud83c\udf31 (@nimo81) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nimo81\/status\/1271386494918369281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Mattias-Baldwin-Statue-Desecration-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16672\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"When 'Anti-Fascism' Means Opposing Abolitionists\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In order to push the narrative that 'Whiteness'='Oppression', it is necessary to erase the inconvenient truth contrary thereto.  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And what better way to do that then to desecrate a statue to Matthias Baldwin, an abolitionist who also directly funded and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2020\/06\/15\/when-anti-fascism-means-opposing-abolitionists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[70,48,68],"class_list":["post-16670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","category-war-terror","tag-facepalm","tag-social-justice","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16675,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16670\/revisions\/16675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}