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Perhaps in an effort to properly amend history, we should remove all mosques in our country because of 9/11?
To the best of my knowledge, no state has tried to leave the union to protect radical Islam, nor are there any cities erecting statues to Osama Bin Laden.
If anything, this is even harder for me to understand. Why would anyone fight to protect a system that harmed them, and by supporting that fight, make destruction of their own homes even more likely?
They didn't participate in that system but wanted to defend their home.
To the best of my knowledge, no state has tried to leave the union to protect radical Islam, nor are there any cities erecting statues to Osama Bin Laden.
To the best of my knowledge, nobody alive today participated in the Civil War, or when a good amount of the statues were put up in the 50s and 60s.
Why should people who had nothing to do with the event have to make reparations for it by taking down their own heritage?
Only a certain type of southerner would see being pulled away from slavery and Jim Crow as being pulled off a cliff - - the type who would be the angriest at seeing the confederate flag put away and confederate monuments being taken down.
The monuments merely reminded us of great historical figures. My confederate ancestor didn't own slaves and didn't fight to keep slavery. He fought because his country was invaded by a foreign army.
And freeing the slaves was not the reason why most Northerners fought. They fought to preserve the union.
Great point. The war was truly North vs South
It's a shame that all of history has been rewritten to paint regular people as evil, slaveholding villains. Yes, some of them were horrific but the majority of Confederates were doing what almost all of us would have done at the time: fight to defend you home.
Back to thread, how does removing the statue really accomplish anything? Now you don't get offended while driving to work?
The monuments merely reminded us of great historical figures. My confederate ancestor didn't own slaves and didn't fight to keep slavery. He fought because his country was invaded by a foreign army.
What are you talking about? His country was not invaded by a foreign army. Confederate traitors attacked one of their own country's forts, and the fight was on.
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Back to thread, how does removing the statue really accomplish anything? Now you don't get offended while driving to work?
Conversely, what does it accomplish to keep around monuments to traitors?
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