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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I can see that point of view
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Most of those statues are relatively new, why put them in a museum? They aren't teaching us anything, and they have no historical significance past an artist wanting to honor the confederacy. Melt it down.
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They could’ve burned down/dismantled Auschwitz, but they didn’t.
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What does that have to do with anything? Auschwitz is a historical location museum, like Fort Sumter -- nobody is proposing dismantling historical sites.
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He's proposing melting the statues to make them disappear which points the way to erasing them from history. Dismantling/melting down Auschwitz would have a similar effect. It has nothing to do with "historical site vs. meltable object". i.e., I agree with you - use museums.
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Removing statues which represent the enemy or the former is common, and only a small fraction of them can end up in museums. Statues aren't "history" like a place where something happened. They're just monuments to it, erected after the fact. Commentary about heroes or villains.
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Every statue I saw at battlefields explained who it was, what they did in the war, and usually other factual things relating to history like their defeats even. Socialists and communists always get rid of history seeming it offensive.
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Absolutely! "Battlefields" are museums: preserved for educational and memorial purposes. A battlefield that's not a museum is just called a field.
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Or you can put the Plaque Right on the statue, w/o removing it to a Museum - let everyone read the whole Story + context.
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We cannot correct a wrong with a footnote. We don't run a front-page headline and a pg32 retraction. We don't just add "nuh uh" under the slander on bathroom stalls. Besides, many of these are drive-by statues in traffic circles and busy corners ...
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Then put up a new statue to MLK, Harriet Tubmann, Frederick Douglass etc.
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Those statues were built to remind the black people they were still slaves and a symbol that they are not equal to whites. A psychological ploy by whites.
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Yup. Most we're put up 50+ years after the war ended. Not coincidentally, this was also in the time period of Jim Crow, lynchings, etc.
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I'm in favor of replacing statues of Lee with statues of Gen Grant or, if it has to be a southerner, Gen George Thomas, a Virginian that stayed true to his military oath and fought the traitors with valor and honor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Thomas …
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This topic always brings back memories of the Christmas of ‘64 spent by the sea. Good times.pic.twitter.com/8RmFbj4CUf
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"I condone war crimes if they're committed against people I dislike"
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Lol what, they objectively committed war crimes even in regards to the times, it's not a controversial point …https://discerninghistory-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/discerninghistory.com/2014/12/was-sherman-a-war-criminal/amp/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=http%3A%2F%2Fdiscerninghistory.com%2F2014%2F12%2Fwas-sherman-a-war-criminal%2F …
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Exactly right
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Robert E. Lee said that he didn't want any statues up anyways for the Confederacy, this was just put up by racists way after the war.
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