Robert E. Lee was a traitor, a brute and a slaver who wouldn't even trade black union soldiers taken prisoner for the lives of his own men because he saw black people as property to be owned.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/the-myth-of-the-kindly-general-lee/529038/ …
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The artist's intent wasn't to teach that the confederacy was bad, the people who funded it didn't want to teach that the confederacy was bad, casual observers don't walk over to a statue commemorating this general and walk away thinking the confederacy was bad. That's nonsense.
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I didn't Claim it was. But putting up a Plaque explaining the Facts Shows the intent. Removing the statue doesn't explain Things.
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"We made a statue to commemorate a racist and a traitor, then made a new plaque to explain ourselves. We should have just removed the damn thing and taught this in schools without commemorating this asshole." Something like that?
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In Schools where Evolution still isn't taught? But okay, you're Right, you obviously know the best way to deal w/ the Problem of how history is taught in US.
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Why don't you ask historians? They've covered this extensively on Twitter, I'm sure you can find a thread or two. Happy hunting!
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Ehhh ... you don’t need a statue to teach ... you can’t find a single statue of Hitler in Germany and they somehow manage to teach it - these statutes were mostly erected to send a message .
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The north is directly responsible for the hero worship in the south. Reconstruction was revenge by the north to keep the south permanently subservient so it won’t happen again. That creates generations of embittered families in poverty that don’t trust the federal government.
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They don't read the plaque. They take their picture in front of the statue and put it on their Facebook page right alongside their stars and bars flag.
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Het laden lijkt wat langer te duren.
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