You got it wrong. It's the far left that talks about the founders with disdain as slave holders. Hence the question: Where does it end?
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And now POTUS & others are playing into that argument by refusing to differentiate between the Founders & the Confederates.
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No more conflating than calling all white conservatives supremacists.
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Nobody does that. Not a good comparison.
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Angela Rye went on CNN and called for statues of Washington and Jefferson to be torn down.
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She's entitled to her opinion. I disagree. But she's following the lead of POTUS who conflated Lee w/ Washington.
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Its a slippery slope.
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This really upsets me. It's one thing to remember leaders w/ flaws. These statues were erected to _celebrate_, very pointedly, the flaws.
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Jim Crow was literally the exact sort of totalitarian, government-driven hell that modern conservatives fear & warn against.
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Agreed. Alexander Stephens bluntly said that the Confederates were repudiating the principles of the Declaration.https://twitter.com/jpitney/status/898207597630693376 …
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Yeah I can't type on this damn phone
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It is about history. Monuments go then reference in history books next. Then Antifa attacks libraries & burn books?
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Slavery continued for decades after the war on American Indian reservations. Somehow the North was ok with that
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