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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      Then there's this map of slavery's geographic distribution. Lincoln loved this map so much, the famous portrait of him & his Cabinet on the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation shows the map propped by a chair.pic.twitter.com/NdA17JKIeg

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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      More on the mapping of freedom & slavery here: http://www.mappingthenation.com/index.php/chapter/index/4 …

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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020

      The Confederacy has been commemorated for many reasons, not all of them bad. What needs to end is not all memory of gallant Southern soldiery & whatnot, but the downplaying of what the Confederate cause actually stood for. The best remedy for that is unblinking truth.

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    4. TxBbqDad‏ @txbbqdad 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @baseballcrank

      Much like Germany commemorates Dacau and such. They don’t celebrate Nazi Germany, but they do want folks to remember how awful it was.

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    5. Jack Burden‏ @wahoolaw2006 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @txbbqdad @baseballcrank

      No, not like that. Maybe if there was an effort to preserve the memory of SS and Nazi "gallantry."

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    6. TxBbqDad‏ @txbbqdad 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @wahoolaw2006 @baseballcrank

      Point taken. We can blame Woodrow Wilson for a lot of the the confederacy fetishism, but I am not a fan of erasing history that is uncomfortable.

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    7. Jack Burden‏ @wahoolaw2006 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @txbbqdad @baseballcrank

      I'm not in favor of erasing history either, but in the South there has been a lot of fake history taught around the Confederacy. And Confederate monuments erected during Jim Crow outside courthouses should come down.

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    8. TxBbqDad‏ @txbbqdad 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @wahoolaw2006 @baseballcrank

      My understanding, as a Midwesterner moving to Texas as a teenager, is that most of the confederate statues (at least in Texas) were erected during the presidency of FDR (WPA) and Woodrow Wilson. They were not contemporary to the civil war era.

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    9. Jack Burden‏ @wahoolaw2006 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @txbbqdad @baseballcrank

      Yes, or right after the turn of the century in other cases. Speakers at the monument dedications spoke at length, without fail, about white supremacy.

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    10. TxBbqDad‏ @txbbqdad 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @wahoolaw2006 @baseballcrank

      I was just musing about why 40-70 years after the civil war, all of these generals were being commerated. But now 40-70 years after WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, we aren’t commerating Chesty Puller, Eisenhower, Patton, etc.

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 27 Jun 2020
      Replying to @txbbqdad @wahoolaw2006

      50 years after WWII was the 1990s. The 1990s were huge on WWII commemoration: Private Ryan, Brokaw's Greatest Generation book, the WWII memorial.

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        1. TxBbqDad‏ @txbbqdad 27 Jun 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @wahoolaw2006

          True. But none of the statues. Maybe statues are an antiquated thing.

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