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    NPR‏Verified account @NPR Oct 16

    In Wake Of Charlottesville Federal Government Pays To Protect Confederate Cemeterieshttps://n.pr/2P69zis 

    6:26 PM - 16 Oct 2018
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    • Chris kt Deb Wells (KK6IQL) Pearce Norman Young Audrey Starrett Francesca Vanderhoof Irlandia Chantal James
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      1. Madi 🌞|#VoteBlue on NOV6‏ @tpwkmadi Oct 16
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        it's amazing (sarcasm) that the US, specifically the south, will spend all this $$ and effort to memorialize men who led the effort that divided the country. not to remember the mistake it was that they made, but to praise them. we are never going to learn from history this way.

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      1. TankBag‏ @TankBag Oct 16
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        Guess it’s marginally better use of our taxes than putting kids in cages, or killing civilians in their endless war.🤔

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      1. 骗子‏ @arXiv6174 Oct 16
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        Let the states which celebrate the confederacy pay for it. After all, most of them hate "big government".

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      2. Norman Young‏ @NormanGYoung Oct 16
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        Good. There are good people who don't want history erased.

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      3. Bill Westley‏ @WestleyBill Oct 16
        Replying to @NormanGYoung @NPR

        Some history shouldn’t be celebrated

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      4. Norman Young‏ @NormanGYoung Oct 16
        Replying to @WestleyBill @NPR

        Civil War isn't "celebrated"... it's "remembered." Hence memorials. ...Lincoln himself advocated remembering.

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      5. Bill Westley‏ @WestleyBill Oct 16
        Replying to @NormanGYoung @NPR

        Lincoln was trying to get the south back into the union without lasting harm. Do you think statues are necessary for remembering? We can use history books or museums, not statues and naming buildings after confederate traitors.

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      6. Norman Young‏ @NormanGYoung Oct 16
        Replying to @WestleyBill @NPR

        I'm glad the North won. Their moral Crusade against slavery was needed. That said, the America-as-nation that we know today is a product of the Civil War. Those defending their States against a federal Crusade are not traitors. The fact that you think so is a problem.

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      7. Bill Westley‏ @WestleyBill Oct 16
        Replying to @NormanGYoung @NPR

        They rebelled against their country. That is the definition of treason. They were traitors and the fact that you see them as moral and justified is wrong. The south glorifying them is even worse.

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      8. Norman Young‏ @NormanGYoung Oct 16
        Replying to @WestleyBill @NPR

        They did not rebel against a "country." There was no "country." There was only a federal government UNITING States.

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      1. Sean K‏ @ShotgunForFun Oct 16
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        lol @ everyone who is cool with the VA wasting money on this but not medical treatment for vets or the countless homeless vets. There's nothing wrong with burying the dead, there is something wrong is erecting statues DECADES AFTERWARDS just to try and quell civil rights.

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      1. charlie polmatier‏ @cpolm Oct 16
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        Thank god

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      2. Free Spirit‏ @freespirit1290 Oct 16
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        On the one hand we cannot forget our history (lest we be doomed to repeat it) yet honoring men who fought to maintain wealth via slavery is undeniably wrong. How do we use best use the past to inform the future?

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      3. The last of the famous international fanboys‏ @Late_Gatsby Oct 16
        Replying to @freespirit1290 @NPR

        Museums and books do a better job. Similarly, there's plantation houses. Beautiful places built by human suffering. The big difference is that they are actually from the age they claim to be- no one built plantations in response to Civil Rights action!

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      1. Jesse james‏ @strawdig71 Oct 16
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        But what about all that evil government spending

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      2. that nick yeager kid‏ @moosefuhrer Oct 16
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        Make the former confederate states for it then. I don't want my tax money going to protecting tratiors' graves.

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      3. Sapientia 🌬 💨 🎏‏ @terrasapientiae Oct 16
        Replying to @moosefuhrer @NPR

        Former confederate states are majority black... Do you think they should pay for? Think about what you’re proposing.

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      4. Molly‏ @itsmolly Oct 16
        Replying to @terrasapientiae @moosefuhrer @NPR

        I see your point, but you’re incorrect factually. There are no states in the US with a majority (>50%+1) black population.

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