As a southerner all this shit talking of Robert E. Lee and the new cycle surrounding it is absolutely infuriating.
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Since when have conflicts of massive scale ever been about one single issue? It is impossible to be about one single issue.
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Historical revisionists are destroying the rich and painful history of the civil war in order to awkwardly jam history into a metanarrative
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Shared collective trauma is one of the most cohesive factors in a stable civ. To revision the civil war as a unipolar battle of good v evil-
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-Only serves to disintegrate the cultural bonds that hold us together, rather than unify us
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The most tragic fact of the civil war is that there were good and honorable men on both sides. That is the tragedy.
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Either way, feel free to shit talk the CSA all you want. But Robert E Lee was an honorable, tragic man who was bound by principle to act
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In the end, Character assasination of the dead is simply a lowly thing to do. Especially of the honored dead. It turns my stomach.
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