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Good, traitors to the USA have no place in that public hall of honor. And the vote was bipartisan.
Also, this is not erasing any history, merely changing the way in which we regard it.
Traitors and revolutionaries are the exact same thing, only difference is the former didn’t win. But yes, confederate Democrats have no place in that public hall of honor.
I have no problem with Democrats white washing their own history of creating slavery, fighting for slavery, then honoring their Democratic heroes, but the problem is history tells us what happens when we try to forget it…. You repeat. And there’s not doubt Democrats have us blacks on a nice welfare plantation to keep us in our place.
Right? I've never seen a statue of Pol Pot, yet somehow I learned about him. Weird.
Speaking of Pol Pot. How many times have we heard right wingers claim that Democrats were like Pol Pot or Mao or Stalin or whomever. These slave loving Democrats were evil. But don't you dare touch their breautiful statues.
Speaking of Pol Pot. How many times have we heard right wingers claim that Democrats were like Pol Pot or Mao or Stalin or whomever. These slave loving Democrats were evil. But don't you dare touch their breautiful statues.
Naw, no problem getting rid of your Democrat statues
Traitors and revolutionaries are the exact same thing, only difference is the former didn’t win. But yes, confederate Democrats have no place in that public hall of honor.
I have no problem with Democrats white washing their own history of creating slavery, fighting for slavery, then honoring their Democratic heroes, but the problem is history tells us what happens when we try to forget it…. You repeat. And there’s not doubt Democrats have us blacks on a nice welfare plantation to keep us in our place.
You keep saying "white washing history", these are memorials to confederate generals, this doesn't change history unless that's the only place you use, how about books?
The vote was 285-120, take a wild guess which party voted against removal of confederate monuments from the nations capitol.
Personally, I think there's quite a bit of truth to these sayings:
"One can fool some men, or fool all men in some places & times, but one cannot fool all men in all places & ages."
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Eventually, the truth comes out. I also think about something else you've said. Sometimes, it isn't in someone's best interest to know better.
As it applies to this thread, those Confederate statues being removed is the understanding in the moral universe that some people don't deserve to be lionized.
The Lost Cause myth cooked up by the UDC and re-enforced by the KKK, it might have fooled some people. It definitely fooled children. On the other hand, there are times I don't think many people are fooled. You have said that for some people, it's not in their best interest to know better. For some people, it's in their own best interests to hold on to the Lost Cause lie.
Good, traitors to the USA have no place in that public hall of honor. And the vote was bipartisan.
Also, this is not erasing any history, merely changing the way in which we regard it.
I pretty much agree. We should honor the heroes who sacrificed to save the republic, not the traitors who fought to break us apart. Screw the confederacy and the horse it lost the war on.
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