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 Problem I see w/ that is that removing the statues doesn't remove the mindset, but looses the teaching opportunity that visible statue w/ Plaque has. Don't hide the sins of the past: explain them to not repeat them.
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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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the why and when of the statues is an interesting story. Worth a museum. Rather unlikely you could build one large enough to house a thousand statues from all across the country tho.
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Just grab one of these pre-fab statues and make it an exhibit about how the US was so against racial integration well into the 1960s that we placed a bunch of these tacky statues commemorating racists around the country. Melt the rest.
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Love it! Definitely NO need to collect & curate them. A few photographs will tell future generations all they need to know about this detail of our long, dark history of racism.
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Stole this
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Love it.
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I'm happy to put it in a museum toppled over and with feces smeared on it.
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Most of them are from the same mold, north and south. The only thing that varies is the buckle and the canteen.
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Fuck that statue and the man it was designed after.
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Relatively new = the civil rights era. I think we can draw simple conclusions from that.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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