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I find it ironic that removing these monuments from public display is viewed as "sanitizing history" when that is exactly why they exist in the first place. Seriously, we have museums. A majority of humans in history don't have statues. Society will be fine without them.
Per the article:
But even if one conceded Lee’s military prowess, he would still be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in defense of the South’s authority to own millions of human beings as property because they are black. Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one. That ideology is known as the Lost Cause, and as historian David Blight writes, it provided a “foundation on which Southerners built the Jim Crow system.”
Per the article:
But even if one conceded Lee’s military prowess, he would still be responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans in defense of the South’s authority to own millions of human beings as property because they are black. Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one. That ideology is known as the Lost Cause, and as historian David Blight writes, it provided a “foundation on which Southerners built the Jim Crow system.”
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Civil War
American History
Racism
Slavery
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I personally don't really care about the confederate monuments as much as the precedent it sets, there are already smaller movements out there now to have Teddy Roosevelts statue removed from the entrance to a museum, and another movement to now have Washington and Jefferson's name removed from anything connected with a certain city. If the people of that state or town want to have those statues or whatever removed so be it. But allot of this is being played out by outside parties using us and those cities as pawns.
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SSG Jessica Bautista
Honestly, I feel like defenders of these monuments are being overly dramatic. Hitler has no monuments, and we remember him just fine. We have museums and schools. It was never about "preserving history".
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But where does it stop, now some are going after presidential monuments and such, then do we start censoring books one group doesn't like. Just asking.
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SSG Jessica Bautista
I believe more context is needed. It's not a matter of "liking" them. This is not about changing history, this is about choosing the history we celebrate. The whole reason these monuments even exist is to revise history. Not all monuments have the purpose of whitewashing slavery.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
SSG Jessica Bautista - each of us have different views on what happened before, during , and after the war. Each side thought they were in the right for their actions, sort of like today(the here and now) there are still people fighting a war that supposedly ended 152 yrs. ago.
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