Union demands apology after seeing Confederate book displayed in congressman's office (soldier, ideology)

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At what point do we reach outage overload? Should we be banning books like this? Burning them?

Members of a federal labor union visiting a Georgia Republican's congressional office Monday said they discovered a 19th-century book on display that they considered "racially offensive."
The American Federation of Government Employees is asking Rep. Drew Ferguson for a formal, public apology after its members said they found the book "General Robert Edward Lee; Soldier, Citizen and Christian Patriot," which presents Confederate ideology.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/polit...ice/index.html

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Too bad he caved. If he had any brains, or conviction, or interpersonal speaking skills, he would have lectured them on the First Amendment.