Tilting at scapegoated statues

 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/11/poole-oxford-seeing-first-stirrings-silent-majority/

Tilting at scapegoated statues is an effective way to divert attention from history in the making AND from addressing any controversial history with revised documented and factually supported history - instead of the copy and paste of the currently established narrative dictate. 

In other words the use of controlled and imposed or erased and distorted history to assign guilt, invalidation or penalty by association is the device for dumping toxic debts onto others or to those holding views that do not support the frame of judgement as true.

The idea of self-specialness as conferring moral superiority over others is not limited to racism, but is the exceptionalism of a profound cognitive dissonance that blindly does the very thing it accuses in others, without any sense of hypocrisy or self-deceit. 

This is the claim to power by aligning in the assignment of guilt and unworthiness away from self, over which to justify and support denial and attack as moral imperatives. The 'holy war' syndrome has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the expunging of guilted doubts and conflicted fears in the 'believers'. Yet if they truly believed the would rest in wholeness rather than attack their own shadows.