David Marcus: L.A. Museum’s Desecration of Confederate Statues Is Pure Barbarism

Before the iconoclastic chaos of the 2020s, when historic statues were legally and riotously toppled, the debate over Confederate monuments was generally respectful, but today, as a new art exhibit in Los Angeles shows, the left has replaced respect with barbaric desecration.

‘Monument’ is a new show at the Brick in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art and features Confederate statues removed On display, some are still covered in protesters’ graffiti, others provide historical context and, in one case, a pure distortion.

The New Yorker described ‘Monuments’ in a glowing review as “Once upon a time An act of carnivalesque revenge and recognition of the zombie-like persistence of the Confederacy.”

Let’s take both of these ideas in turn, starting with retribution, by asking, who exactly is retribution?

The Confederate monument, which was torn down after the debate, will be moved to Veterans Park

The statues have already been removed, the place in history of the men and women depicted has already been erased, this mockery, this vendetta, is not against them, but against anyone who believes that our historical monuments should be protected, not destroyed.

A worker secures a statue of Confederate naval officer Matthew Fontaine Maury to a truck on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., Thursday, July 2, 2020. Maury was better known for his work in oceanography and other sciences before the Civil War. This is the second statue of him removed after the new state law came into effect on July 1. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

A statue titled ‘Confederate Women of Baltimore’, featuring two women holding a dying Confederate soldier, originally an expression of the terrible loss of America’s deadliest war, is now displayed alongside numerous photographs of black mothers nursing wounded children in modern urban settings.

The message is clear, that the daughters of the Confederacy erecting the statue, or the actual sculptors, should keep quiet about whatever pain they may be feeling.

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One of the strangest works, called “Unmanned Drones,” was formerly an equestrian statue of General Thomas ‘Stonewall’ Jackson. in VirginiaBut the artist, Cara Walker, used a plasma cutter to tear apart the statue, reshaping it into a terrifying monster.

Brick director Hamza Walker said of the piece, “Ideologically it’s an insult, aesthetically it’s an insult,” and I ask again, whose insult? Have an idea to hurt people? If so, why?

All of this has a strong element of projection, with many celebrating the ‘monument’ believing that the President Donald TrumpThe new White House Ballroom is the middle finger on the left, perhaps because an exhibit like ‘Monument’ is actually on the right.

This art says, not only have we toppled your statues, usually without anyone commenting on it, but now we’re going to deface, deface and deface them and rub them out, while all the high-minded art journals are calling it amazing and daring.

The ‘monument’ is reminiscent of the Nazis’ Degenerate Art Exhibition of 1937 in which works of modern art considered an affront to German values ​​were displayed with the intention of publicly defying them. Statues in Los Angeles Being humiliated.

Viewers have a deep hatred of the Confederacy and, even more, an almost inhuman tolerance for insulting works of art once created by loving and talented hands.

The National Park Service announced that it will restore, reinstate a statue honoring Confederate General Albert Pike.

So yes, this art show is definitely a carnival of revenge. But what about the second part of the New Yorker’s description, “the zombie-like persistence of the Confederacy?”

Let me suggest that almost the only people obsessed with confederation in 2025 are progressives.

There is no neo-confederate movement to contend with, no one trying to desegregate or defend slavery, rather, it is the left who constantly points to the stars and stripes as if they have anything to do with today’s conservative movement.

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The removal of statues was an abominable act of desecration, or obliteration of memory, which was the practice of ancient Egypt, but ‘monument’ is much worse, it is highly energetic, meaning ritual humiliation.

The good news is that there are two sides to this fight, as the Trump administration has already restored Two Confederate statues in Washington DCAnd it’s a fight between those who want to build and those who want to destroy, those who want to celebrate our history and those who want to dishonor it.

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Thankfully, after this exhibit all but the butchered Stonewall Jackson statue will go back into storage, no longer the butt of a disgusting joke, but one day, if the good guys stay true and work hard, we can return them to their original pedestals.

The battle for the past isn’t really about the past, it’s about the present and the future, and it’s a battle we can’t afford to lose.