OPINION:
Jacob Bruggeman is a graduate student in history (“Removing Confederate statues does not erase U.S. history,” Web, June 25)? Laughable! Apparently his leftist professors and mentors have allowed him to proceed without challenge in his academic career as the biased, ignorant, intellectual pretender that he is.
Mr. Bruggeman’s column suggests that his mental acumen and his academic achievements are no further advanced than those of the the rioting, looting mobs of thugs and anarchists tearing down and burning statues. These lawless actions are an attempt to suppress and deny historical facts and perspectives of important figures of America’s past. But Mr. Bruggeman doesn’t appreciate or understand their significance.
Mr. Bruggeman may pass his tests with high marks and write his theses in the obtuse lingua franca of leftist academia, but he has not yet discerned — if he ever will — that he is the victim of inculcation by overwhelmingly leftist intelligentsia at his elite institutions of learning.
Mr. Bruggeman writes: “History is not so malleable.” May I point out to him that history is indeed malleable in the hands of radical-left zealots and charlatan intellectuals who interpret it to mean whatever happens to be convenient.
JOHN K. LAMBERT
Silver Spring, Md.
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