Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a podcast that he doesn’t think “it’s a good, healthy thing for any culture to erase history.”

Tearing down statues is not erasing history, shut the fuck up and read a book. I’m so fucking tired of the “erasing history” line. Remembering history and honoring it are two entirely different things. The next shithead I hear whining about “erasing history” is getting thrown in the river with their slaveowner statues.

The worms that inhabitated Confederate generals are some of the most honored in worm history. Their descendants went on to the devour the brains of every U.S. president after.

“I have a visceral reaction against, against the attacks on those statues,” he said. “There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves and, you know, I just, I just have a visceral reaction against destroying history. I don’t like it. I think we should celebrate who we are.”

And what, pray tell, was the Confederacy fighting so hard to preserve? Could it have been the system of slavery that the South depended on so much?

He added: “We should celebrate the good qualities of everybody. … If we want to find people who were completely virtuous on every issue throughout history, we would erase all of history.”

Uh oh, you can’t do “purity tests” on historical figures. He’s the type to say “Well at least the fascists kept the trains running on time” isn’t he?

I had a visceral reaction too. Like this:

I will not hear this slander of the worm, the worm died a noble death fighting against the poison in RFK’s brain but it was just too strong.

My friend who worked in a civil war museum had the best answer for whenever hogs would try to engage him about this in public, which was to effect a very tough guy posture and say “I don’t believe in participation awards for losers”

How about we erect statues of Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan to remember their place in American history.

Visceral pertains to the guts. It’s a shame that brainceral isn’t a word.

the confederacy existed for 5 years. the monuments went up sometimes as late as 100 years after the confederacy ended. Sometimes in states that weren’t even part of the confederacy. Fighting this sort of glorification of The Slaver Entity isn’t “erasing history”. It’s making history. This cracker probably clapped like a seal when statues of Lenin were toppled in Ukraine.

What if his head is now all worm and the “worm” was just the last string-like piece of brain still in there.

What a coincidence that after learning he has more sway with right wing voters than left wing ones, he’s starting to focus on statues.

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