Ilana Mercer, in addition to having a soft spot for apartheid, apparently has a similar soft spot for the Confederacy as well. She wrote in her June 18 WorldNetDailiy column:
Steve Hilton is a Briton who anchors a current-affairs show on Fox News.
Mr. Hilton made the following feeble, snowflake’s case for the removal of the nation’s historically offensive statues:
It’s offensive to our Africa American neighbors to maintain statues in public places that cause not only offense, but real distress. And it is disrespectful to our Native American neighbors to glorify a man who they see as having committed genocide against their ancestors. None of this is to erase history. Put it all in a museum. Let’s remember it and learn from it.
“What’s wrong with Camp Ulysses Grant,” Hilton further intoned sanctimoniously. He was, presumably, plumping for the renaming of army installations like Fort Bragg, called after a Confederate major general, Braxton Bragg.
Sons of the South – men and women, young and old – see their forebear as having died “in defense of the soil,” and not for slavery. Most Southerners were not slaveholders. All Southerners were sovereigntists, fighting a War for Southern Independence.
Not so much — the Civil War really was about slavery. Her claim that Southerners died in the Civil War “in defense of the soil” is linked to an anonymously written column that proclaimed Confederate generals “heroes” who deserve the statues built in their honor and the “Charlottesville debacle” resulted in “countless right wingers excoriated by their peers and persecuted by the law unjustly.”
Mercer went on to cheer a man named Thomas J. DiLorenzo as “the country’s chief Lincoln slayer” and dismissing historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as “a pseudo-intellectual.” Turns out DiLorenzo is a fan of the Confederacy as well; he tried to disassociate himself from the right-wing, white nationalist League of the South despite admitting to speaking before the group and endorsing its social and political views.