US citizens: call on Congress to impeach the bigot-in-chief.

He gave white supremacists explicit and unequivocal support.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

An argument against insisting on trigger warnings.

I read an article (I don't know a place to link to it) which compared trigger warnings to spoiler warnings. Spoiler warnings do a favor to some readers. It's a kindness to do that favor, if you think of it, but we can't demand that people always remember to think of it, or know where there is a reason to do it.

The troll has "forced the world to confront racial division in the US".

Monuments to the Confederacy in the US are not relics of the Confederacy. They were erected chiefly in the 1910s and 1920s as symbols of bigotry, by and for the movement that set up the racist segregation laws known as "Jim Crow".

We should preserve the battlefields and other relics of the Civil War, which reflect the gravity of that struggle. They honor the abolitionist movement that defeated the Confederacy. However, as for the campaign symbols for bigotry, cities and states should take all of them down.

Many have been removed this year.

Historical Amnesia About Slavery Is a Tool of White Supremacy.

"False equivalence is a tool, not an accident of ignorance. It is a choice to focus on Lee’s reputation as a military tactician and not on what that acumen was put to use for… It was a choice to erect these statues honoring his life, just as it was a choice to keep them up for so long."

The troll is talking about pardoning ex-Sheriff Arpaio for disobeying the court order to stop unconstitutional practices.