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Confederate memorial to be removed in coming days from Arlington National Cemetery
(www.seattletimes.com)
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2023
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Does removing a monument also erase history books somehow?
No, just republicans erase books currently
How is a monument put up in 1914 a trace of history?
Unless you mean the history of racists who praised the Confederacy but were never a part of it.
The folks itching to repeat it are the same folks who have hooked their "heritage" on a traitorous nation that lasted less time than some of my underwear and socks.
I don't think removing these monuments to traitors from US soil is going to make much of a difference to them.
Also - monuments aren't history books, and the folks trying to get sensitive events out of history books are also the same group of people trying to keep the monuments to traitors in place.
This. I grew up in Virginia with folks talking about how the civil war was about states rights and not about slavery.
They use all kinds of circular and backwards thinking to somehow suggest that the confederates were heroes.
Smelt all the confederate statues to make new statues that commemorate all the people who fought against these racist southern bigots.
Take your southern heritage and shove back up your ass where it came from in the first place.
I used to believe it, and have made the argument more than once as a young person growing up.
Grew up in a similar bubble, I get it.
Simply replace it with a memorial for the enslaved folks these losers fought to subjugate. Let the Confederate legacy be lost to time and honor the people who persevered through unimaginable evils.
Books and museums about the Civil War literally still exist.
Lol we don't reward losers
Where are all the monuments to Hitler in Germany?
Sadly, there's probably a huge overlap between the people for keeping that monument and people that wouldn't be opposed to installing Nazi monuments
Fair enough- when are they going to put up the memorial to Osama Bin Laden in Times Square?
We don't want to celebrate wrongdoers with memorials.
There's a reason why you don't see statues of Hitler in Germany. That doesn't mean he's not part of their history or that they are not trying to learn from the mistakes.
Most of the Confederate monuments were put up by the KKK in the early 20th century as an intimidation tactic.
Honoring racist pieces of shit just makes more people racist pieces of shit.