Lawyer For Sons of Confederate Veterans Really Puts Things In Perspective

Moving a statue is pretty much exactly like nuclear war.

What has happened was a cultural atrocity — this is a desecration of art… Hiroshima is coming… [UT-Austin President] Greg Fenves will rue the day.

— Kirk Lyons, lawyer for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, on University of Texas at Austin President Greg Fenvesdecision to remove the statue of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis from its iconic location on campus. The statue was the center of controversy for months as students advocated for its removal and it was tagged with “black lives matter.” The Sons of Confederate Veterans had sought a temporary restraining order to prevent the statue’s removal, but the request was denied.

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