I have a modest proposal:

As we're running about scouring our history for ancient offenses we find too painful to remember, we probably ought to ban the College Democrats from campus while we're at it. Hear me out.

Stonewall Jackson was a Democrat. So were Nathan Bedford Forrest, George Wallace, Bull Connor, Woodrow Wilson (don't forget him), Lester Maddox, and every other piece of slavery-loving segregationist garbage roaming the South in those days. As recently as 2010, the Democrats had a Klansman (Robert Byrd) in the United States Senate. I find it amazing some folks on here didn't know that, by the way.

Not one Democrat in Congress voted in support of the 14th or 15th Amendments to the Constitution, giving freed slaves equal protection under the law and African-American men the right to vote, respectively. Yet we allow this hateful and bigoted political party to have a "chapter" on our campus?

When you look back over the course of its shameful history (and it is in fact shameful), the Democrat Party and their hideous ideology have done more to hold back African-Americans than Stonewall Jackson or Turner Ashby ever could have individually or collectively. And given our new revisionist standards of viewing history, it makes sense that the racist, segregationist, slavery-loving, KKK-supporting legacy of the Democrat Party be erased from campus along with everything and everyone else we find objectionable when viewed through our modern lens. I propose we start with the College Democrats, and then we can decide where to go from there. After all, the mob is never truly appeased.

Editor's note: Before everyone goes off the deep end, I'm obviously saying all of this tongue-in-cheek. But if we start down this slippery slope of whitewashing (pun intended) our history, where and how does it end? And who gets to decide? I take the points of those who disagree as valid (especially the arguments around glorifying traitors), but this is dangerous business.