Black Lives Matter protesters who toppled a statue on their own heads have created the perfect culture war metaphor

Protesters in Virginia

Protesters in Virginia seriously injured one of their own when they pulled down a stone statue onto his head. This unintended tragedy sums up the irresponsible thoughtlessness of their actions.

In summary, an excited crowd mounted a Confederate monument as part of the current wave of statue-felling and pushed a large stone figure onto a man who was standing underneath it, seriously injuring him and reportedly leaving him in a coma. You can see the video below, and it’s worth watching before I get into a lengthy torturing of this metaphor as a warning of where we stand and what might come next.

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