“I hope you don’t mind if I do this,” lawyer and alleged client of Epstein Allen Dershowitz starts out. “The world is mourning Bishop Tutu, who just died the other day. Can I remind the world that, although he did some good things, a lot of good things on apartheid, the man was a rampant anti-Semite and bigot. The man minimized the Holocaust. The man compared Israel to Nazi Germany. When we’re tearing down statutes [sic] of Jefferson, Lincoln and Washington, let’s not build statutes [sic] to a deeply, deeply flawed man like, ah, Bishop Tutu. Let’s hope that history remembers both the goods that he did and the awful, awful bads he did as well.”
So, in DershWorld, it’s okay to put up a “statute” to someone like, say, Benedict Arnold, celebrating his military career in the Colonial Army, as long as you put an asterisk noting his treason.