But what about Abraham Lincoln's legacy?

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The continual nitpicking of BLM is nothing but a passive aggressive manifestation of hostility towards the movement. And who is the "we" you are talking about? Are you a BLM member?

If you want a certain kind of anti-racism activism done, DO IT YOURSELF instead of putting the onus on people you don't even know. BLM is not obligated to address everybody's sociopolitical issues. If you really want to know what BLM should do or will do, go find some BLM members and talk to them about it, because they decide their own actions and agenda. Don't ask WP.

Why force your morality on others?

Why not let others be happy and worship their war "heroes"?

Nice cherrypicking and over-simplification. Why should I let them force their lies *cough* sorry, "MORALITY" onto me? Why am I the sacrificial lamb and not them? Why should I let you force your "MORALITY" onto me? It's all relative, remember? Morally RELATIVE. If they're all relative, how can one be better than the other? How can you pick one of the other? And, since it is your choice, it's merely your "morality", right? If others are entitled to theirs, aren't I to mine? Why do YOU get to to decide that *I*, have to satisfy THEIR "morality" at the expense of my own? Relatively speaking, since they're all equally valid, there is no right or wrong choice. Right? So why is my compliance demanded to satisfy the wants of others? How come you don't tell *them* to stop trying to force *their* morality onto others, too? Or are you playing favorites? Cos that would also be you forcing your morality, right?

In order for the argument to work as you've constructed it, it has to contradict itself to fulfill itself. It's basically like saying "all morality is relative, but this one is still best" - it can't be both. Even if you change it to "all morality is relative, so go with the one I say", it's still nothing but a demand. It's just "do as I say" with a preamble to make it seem like it's justified.

Philosophy aside, it is not my job to make other people happy at my expense. It is not my job to make other people happy, period. It is not my job to subsidize other people's wacky delusions. It is not my job to pretend I live in the land of make believe just so that other people don't have to get their feelings hurt for having to accept that "santa isn't real", insofar as the true story of their "heros".

The same could be said about you.

The is now pressure on Mayor Marty Walsh to rename Faneuil hall.

It's ironic how the people who are most vocally opposed to so called 'political correctness' are often the most militant about enforcing their standards of it. Some people are very invested in not having holes poked in the Lost Cause.

Lincoln was hardly perfect, but he was certainly better than the men he fought who led the Confederacy's government and army. He had ultimately freed millions of Americans from involuntary servitude and he saved the country from being ripped apart. That should first and foremost be his legacy.