And a mediocre general
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Yes but I don’t even care.
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It doesn’t matter. But it is the first excuse offered by the hidden neo-Confederate brigade.
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He was a product of his times, as are we all.
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People of his time also thought slavery was bad. Hence the war.
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So it makes sense to remove statues to never talk about it again. That’s all removing the statues does.. helps us forget history.
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Read a damn book, Jason.
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They also make these things called “Documentaries.”
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Oh. Now you’re just getting smart on us!

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Yeah. We know. He was a southern aristocrat. Still part of history. You can't throw away history, and then expect good things to happen.
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Nobody's throwing away history. We're recovering the full story, and changing our minds about who we honor.
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That's what you think you're doing. But you're not doing that. You do not have the right to rewrite US history to suit leftist fads.
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Everyone has the right to rewrite history, if there are facts and reasonable interpretations at hand. Lee-fetish was a right-wing, white-supremacist fad that lasted way too long.
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A lot would change if it was called "The Great Slave Owner Rebellion" rather than the Civil War.
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Steven Hahn, in his Penguin history of 19c US, "Nation Without Borders" mostly refuses to use the term "Civil War" in favor of phrases like "rebellious states."
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I want to clarify that this was written in 2016. (Also, looking at my notes, it's the "Confederacy" that he refers to as "rebellious states"; I don't have anything specific noted about how he refers to the war itself)
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I find it disappointing how history has become such a fickle thing. And for it to be judged by the polarized, scrutinous eye of today? Is idiotic. And to attempt to manipulate it? Is downright tragic. Especially by the now meaningless statement of "He was racist".
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He was so racist he let his own soldiers rot in POW camps because when the Union offered to swap prisoners he wouldn't include the black Union soldiers, his own officers criticized him for this.
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