"So what's the limiting principle? GW & TJ had slaves, so..." So this is the conversation we need to have. Who do we honor and why?
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Replying to @willwilkinson
Enslavement and extermination & removal of natives are founding American practices. Our attitudes toward founding need to reflect this.
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Replying to @willwilkinson
But there's a clear, principled difference between GW/TJ & those who rebelled specifically to form a white supremacist slave state.
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Replying to @willwilkinson
Reb generals & politicians merit no honor. They were evil enemies of the U.S. Simple, basic patriotic loyalty advises the trash heap.
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So let's remove their images from places of honor and put them in museums that tell the story of their crimes, so they may live in infamy.
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Replying to @willwilkinson
Let's do that first, and thoroughly, through regular democratic processes that confer legitimacy on the cultural decision to dishonor them.
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Replying to @willwilkinson
*Then* lets move backwards, through the Indian killers and slaving founders, and decide on the appropriateness of our monuments to them.
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Actual historical memory is messier than that.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Sure. Nobody is going to take my advice! But they should.
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