Idiocy is contagious

 
One of London’s best-known landmarks, the 169-foot Nelson’s Column, has become the subject of intense discussion after an editorial in a British left wing newspaper added it to a list of ‘offensive’ monuments of “white supremacists”, earmarked for destruction.
In a column titled Toppling statues? Here’s why Nelson’s column should be next, Afua Hirsch applauded the history erasing movement which has campaigned to remove, and actively vandalised and destroyed monuments deemed offensive to minorities.