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>During the USA’s nationwide campaign in 2017 for the removal of Confederate monuments and memorials, the Alt-Right, a meta-political movement supportive of Donald Trump, wondered why no one was suggesting that we take down the few monuments commemorative of Judah Benjamin. Altright.com published an article summing up the laudatory remarks of politicians and historians in homage to Judah Benjamin’s memory, and noted that the latter somehow manages to escape the PC police’s insults typically aimed at Confederates:

>Rather than the typical slurs such as “racist,” “bigot,” and “supremacist,” used to describe his Confederate counterparts, Benjamin is instead remembered as an extraordinary figure, brilliant, competent, remarkable, the only genius in Davis’ cabinet, and a man among men. Here we have a man with all the same qualifications anti-Whites use to condemn Whites Southerners, save for one apparently redeeming fact; he was Jewish