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Let's talk about this Charlottesville hoax. This is usually at the top of the list when people say, well, you know, it's no longer in doubt the president is definitely a racist because of the Charlottesville situation in which he referred to people who were at the event as, quote, "fine people." Now, the people who were trapped in their mental prisons say, my God, there's more evidence of what we…
← Previous segment →For the record, I completely disagree with keeping the statues. The statues are not history. The statues are decorations. You would not decorate your own house in a way that offended half of the country or even 20 percent of your neighborhood. You just wouldn't do it, right? Because you'd be kind of a dick if you did that.
So the statues, while I understand the argument that it's part of history and you don't want to change history, the history is still with us. It's in the internet. It's in the history books. No one's going to forget it. Moreover, nobody ever learned history from a statue. Throughout history, not many people ever learned something from a statue. So I call the statues decorations. And in my opinion, if somebody on my team is offended by the decoration, that's a good reason to change a decoration. Because it's just a decoration. The point of a decoration is to make people feel good. If your decoration makes people feel bad, get rid of it. Let the history go. Put it in the books. Put it in the internet. It's a decoration. You just don't need it.
All right, so that's my view. I only give you that as an aside so you can kind of put it in context with this discussion.
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So the president is on the other side of me on this issue. He said he thinks the statues are fine, wants to keep them, doesn't think that's racist. It's just a reflection of history. His comment that there were some fine people there, isn't it a little more likely, given the history of this president, that he wasn't well informed about who was there? If somebody told you there was a protest aroun…
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