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Koffla 68M
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7/2/2020 6:20 pm


The American Civil War is unlike any other war in history. Removing symbols and not allowing them to be displayed does not remove what is in peoples hearts and minds. Besides, the people who waged war against the US seceded with the full belief they had the constitutional right to do so.

In my opinion, I don't think is it fair to compare the South memorials to Nazi Germany. The US Congress pardoned all Confederate soldiers and granted them protection as US military veterans. I don't understand why we have to try to erase history.




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bondjam33 70M
840 posts
7/3/2020 1:09 am
    Quoting Koffla:


    The American Civil War is unlike any other war in history. Removing symbols and not allowing them to be displayed does not remove what is in peoples hearts and minds. Besides, the people who waged war against the US seceded with the full belief they had the constitutional right to do so.

    In my opinion, I don't think is it fair to compare the South memorials to Nazi Germany. The US Congress pardoned all Confederate soldiers and granted them protection as US military veterans. I don't understand why we have to try to erase history.


The American Civil war is not unlike any other war in History.
The English had their civil war more than 2 centuries earlier, the French almost a century earlier. Both rehabilitated the losing combatants -- in fact the English even restored the Monarchy although they would have had trouble rehabilitating Charles 1/Charles the Short as he is sometimes known. All statues to Cromwell were removed because he was no longer to be celebrated/looked up to. Therein lies your parallel.
Statues celebrate the person to whom they are erected. If that person was a slaver/defender of slavery then they do not deserve to be celebrated.
There is no need to have the statues on public display if they are to be used to illustrate History.In fact they would serve this purpose much better in a museum set in their historical context.
It is worth noting that 90% or more of the statues to confederate leaders were erected in times at which there was a push to greater representation of black people/civil rights and the repeal of laws like Jim Crow, long after the combatants of the US Civil war were dead in most cases. They were signals to the uppity 'blacks' (I cannot use the word they used here) that there were people around who still wanted to keep them in servitude.




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