Senator John Kennedy complained that Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) Senate amendment to remove the names of traitorous Confederate officers from the U.S. military bases “picks on the South unfairly.”
According to CNN, the Louisiana Republican felt Warren’s legislative measure unfairly targeted those soldiers who chose to end the Union and fought to preserve slavery. To defend his argument, Kennedy engaged in a classic attempt of whataboutism, trying to argue that many well-respected members of the military were also guilty of racial discrimination.