HAMMER: Washington Post Contributor Compares Pleas For Tolerance And Civility To Antebellum Slavery. She’s Comically Misguided.

Yesterday, hapless bloviator Eve Fairbanks wasted 3,000 words in the The Washington Post on a risible comparison of open discourse, free speech, intellectual tolerance, civility, and reason to the ignominious defenders of chattel slavery in the antebellum South. Because if you are the unhealthily Civil War-obsessed Eve Fairbanks, nothing apparently says “civility” and “tolerance” like seceding from the Union in evil defense of human enslavement and firing upon Fort Sumter to instigate a bloody…