It's not so much the removal of Confederate General Robert E Lee's statue 'per se' (a high fallutin' $10 term for 'in itself") that we find so offensive; but rather, the phony pretext behind it -- namely, his undeserved vilification as a "racist" ™ as well as the real reason behind it -- namely, the Marxist conspiracy to denigrate the heritage of southerners in particular, and all White people in general.
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Lee wouldn’t have wanted a statue.
“(When) Lee was invited to a meeting of Union and Confederate officers to mark the placing of a memorial honoring those who took part in the battle of Gettysburg:
“I think it wiser not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered,” he wrote in a letter declining the invitation.”
The statues erected during the civil rights era were expressly racist, in an attempt to promote white supremacy in the face of those colored people getting uppity and demanding equality.
Were it not so costly, i’d suggest shooting such monuments into teh sun. As it is, grind them into gravel and line the roads.
Even if the statues weren't racist (they are), why would a nation support memorials to traitors and/or people who activelytried to harm the US? When should we make the 9/11 bomber statues next, since you want to honor such people?
1) He was racist. Read his writings about slavery and black people.
2) He famously fought for Virginia. Virginia=! the South by any means so being truthful about Robert E Lee doesn’t denigrate southerners’ heritage or history at all.
3) “Per se” is not a high saluting/$10 term.
The Confederacy was a polity based on racism, as stated by POTCS Jefferson Davis (“We recognize the fact of the inferiority stamped upon that race of men by the Creator, and from the cradle to the grave, our Government, as a civil institution, marks that inferiority”) and his VP Alexander Stephens (“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural condition”).
He didn't want to be memorialised, they lost the war and their purpose was to intimidate blacks.
They didn't deserve to be up in first place
I'm as white as snow and I certainly don't feel denigrated by the removal of Lee's statue. My great great grandfather, who was at Gettysburg with the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, would definitely approve.
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The Confederate Air Force changed their name to Commemorative Air Force.
Now, can you explain why they did so: and years before all this, Mike Thing ...?!
Confederate Monuments were little more than dignified - looking versions of burning crosses and Nazi graffiti on a Synagogue.
If the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard were to ever be re-released on DVD / Blu-Ray / Download, they would need to do a lot of editing (audio, CGI) due to BO & LUKE’S AMAZING ICONIC SUPER CAR (Either the roof would have no flag or Old Glory, the horn would play ‘Yankee Doodle’ and it would be called ‘The General’)!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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