Now Abraham Lincoln Was a Racist

Some of the giants of history who personify our heritage will be erased, like Robert E. Lee. Others will be branded as thought criminals, as social justice warriors have tried to do to Lee’s opponent, Abraham Lincoln:

The University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor has shot down a student government request that a plaque be placed near an on-campus statue of Abraham Lincoln describing what they see as the president’s culpability in massacres of Native Americans.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank said she was not open to making the Associated Students of Madison’s desired change to the statute that has sat at the heart of the campus for over a century, student paper the Daily Cardinal reported.

Lincoln’s crime is that he commuted the death sentences of most but not all of a group of Sioux Indians who had been convicted of murder and rape.

ASM Chair Katrina Morrison said she wants UW to recognize Lincoln’s “brutality towards indigenous peoples.”

His statue will remain undesecrated for now, but today’s student government is tomorrow’s board of trustees. If trends continue, Honest Abe will be known to future generations as just another villainous white male.

On a tip from TCS III.