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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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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Let the states which celebrate the confederacy pay for it. After all, most of them hate "big government".
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Good. There are good people who don't want history erased.
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Some history shouldn’t be celebrated
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Civil War isn't "celebrated"... it's "remembered." Hence memorials. ...Lincoln himself advocated remembering.
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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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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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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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They did not rebel against a "country." There was no "country." There was only a federal government UNITING States.
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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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Thank god
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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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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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But what about all that evil government spending
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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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Former confederate states are majority black... Do you think they should pay for? Think about what you’re proposing.
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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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