First They Came for the Confederate Statues, Then they came for the...

[LadyVolette]

End Wokeness is cancer lol, the staunch pro-slavery guy being framed as honorable Vice President while the anti-slavery guy is "genocidal terrorist" is typical for them

Anyone who has studied history knows it’s a lot more complicated than that, which is why all historical statues need to be left alone imo.. getting rid of things doesn’t wipe out history.. if they want to add statues here and there for various things retroactively (Franklin did this).. it seems like a better compromise

 

[NashVol11]

Anyone who has studied history knows it’s a lot more complicated than that, which is why all historical statues need to be left alone imo.. getting rid of things doesn’t wipe out history.. if they want to add statues here and there for various things retroactively (Franklin did this).. it seems like a better compromise

It's really not that complicated, mostly just that the South has a bunch of people with Confederate ancestors that need to be coddled and get mad when anyone says they were fighting on the slavery side

 

[LadyVolette]

It's really not that complicated, mostly just that the South has a bunch of people with Confederate ancestors that need to be coddled and get mad when anyone says they were fighting on the slavery side

Not really.. knocking everything down is very 1984ish and not a road we need to go down.. a statue sitting there does not hurt you.. just like people having nose rings and purple hair doesn’t hurt me lol… all of the people in history were flawed, rarely was someone completely bad or completely good.. it just was

 

[EasternVol]

Not really.. knocking everything down is very 1984ish and not a road we need to go down.. a statue sitting there does not hurt you.. just like people having nose rings and purple hair doesn’t hurt me lol… all of the people in history were flawed, rarely was someone completely bad or completely good.. it just was

Almost all the statues were erected to honor those who fought to defend their home states against invaders. That's deserving of admiration. We should do a better job teaching the good and bad of our history.

 

[VolTull]

Disgusting?

 

[85SugarVol]

Disgusting?

SPLC… lol

 

[85SugarVol]

Almost all the statues were erected to honor those who fought to defend their home states against invaders. That's deserving of admiration. We should do a better job teaching the good and bad of our history.

Many were indeed erected as warnings - 100 years after the War.

Point was it was never gonna stop with those dastardly Confederate stone statues. It was always going to metastasize and spread.

And it has.

 

[EasternVol]

Many were indeed erected as warnings - 100 years after the War.

Point was it was never gonna stop with those dastardly Confederate stone statues. It was always going to metastasize and spread.

And it has.

Uh, what was going to spread?
edit: derp, now I get it. Yes it has.

 

[EasternVol]

SPLC… lol

They used to serve a good purpose. Now they serve themselves.

 

[GroverCleveland]

Uh, what was going to spread?

I took it to mean going after other historical monuments. Arguably, that has occurred.