Michel Paradis, CNS Fellow, professor at Columbia Law School, and senior attorney for the Department of Defense, writes for The Atlantic about the history of military bases named after Confederate generals, Paradis writes, “The premise of the Lost Cause was that this worldview was as worthy as the proposition that all men were created equal. Continuing to commemorate that cause, most especially within the institution of the military, is an act of political neutrality on the question of white supremacy. It insists, to borrow Wilson’s (and later Trump’s) phrase, that equal respect is owed to both sides.”
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