UVA students’ efforts to erase Jefferson from campus more than just Tom-foolery

Talk about ingratitude. Students at the University of Virginia have become the latest young Americans to try to saw off the branch of the tree that they are sitting on. In this case, the legacy of Thomas Jefferson.

An article written by the editorial board of the university’s student newspaper says that Thomas Jefferson’s image and name should be removed from the university’s buildings. The editorial tries to draw a link between Jefferson, the Ku Klux Klan and the people who marched in Charlottesville in 2017.

Of course, plenty of people have pointed out that these students are committing an act of double patricide. They are not only waging war on one of the people who founded this country. They are waging war on the man who founded the university that they are sitting in. Who knows whether these students would have a university to go to if Thomas Jefferson had never lived? Who knows whether they would have a country?