It’s not about saving Confederate statues. It’s about the rule of law… It’s about what comes next…
Local communities should be allowed to erect or remove whatever statues, monuments, and street names they like. If the citizens of Seattle wants to allow a statue of Vladimir Lenin in their community (and they do), a monument to a cold-blooded murderer and Hitler-like antisemite and tyrant, so be it. What the hell do I care?
If some southern town or city wants to erect a statue of Robert E. Lee or Jefferson Davis or Stonewall Jackson, what the hell do I care?
And if, someday, Seattle or that southern town or city decides to removes those statues — again, what the hell do I care?
Other than the sense of history, I feel no affinity towards the Confederacy. A few decades ago, when the left claimed the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery (this is when the left’s agenda was to deny white Americans fought a war to free the slaves), I was arguing that was ridiculous. Granted, not everyone who fought for the Confederacy fought to protect the abomination of slavery (including Robert E. Lee).
In fact, many who fought for the Confederacy opposed slavery (including Robert E. Lee). But of course the war was fought over slavery. And although the left currently agrees with me on that issue, it only does as a means to justify its rationale to Taliban these statues.
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5 comments:
But the murdering facist commie lenin statue still stands? Enslaved all of russia
Do you feel a wave of depression over our country? Its doom and gloom 24/7.
Nah 1050 - this will pass like it has all the time.
My understanding has always been that the war was not because of slavery but repealing slavery was because of the war.
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Lenin was Jewish
They are a qualitatively better race compared to the rest of us. They are not subject to the same rules. Most of us understand that and accept it as normal.
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