Posted on Nov 29, 2019
Alabama Supreme Court upholds law protecting Confederate monuments
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As LTC Eugene Chu gave an example of in Georgia, the plaques around these monuments should be revised to reflect who these people actually were and why the monuments were erected to "whitewash" what they did.
Leaving these monuments up in a way that makes them look like heros instead of the racist slaver traitors they were is the problem with re-writing or forgetting history. These were not good people fighting for a good cause. They were the Nazis of their day.
Leaving these monuments up in a way that makes them look like heros instead of the racist slaver traitors they were is the problem with re-writing or forgetting history. These were not good people fighting for a good cause. They were the Nazis of their day.
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Sidebar topic is Germany and Nazi history. Although Deutschland does include its painful past, it does so in a balanced manner. It dos not have statues or monuments celebrating its activities during World War 2.
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/commentary/charlottesville-nazis-germany-communists-monuments-trump-20170817.html
https://www.inquirer.com/philly/opinion/commentary/charlottesville-nazis-germany-communists-monuments-trump-20170817.html
Take a lesson: How Germany handles monuments from Nazi and communist eras
The processing of history is like an open wound that slowly heals only with careful debate about the often explosive issues at stake.
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Like all it took was a quick google search and MSgt David Hoffman - is correct, their is little correlation between the civil war and the nazis.
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/memorials.htm
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/memorials.htm
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
SSG (Join to see) - I think the point was that the Nazis were bad and did bad things for bad reasons. And so was the Confederacy.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski - or it's a dreadful attempt at making it a moral equivalency, like you so elegantly put it. The "bad" (and the reason it's "bad" is because a majority of the world still practiced slavery, but, lets just pretend the US was the only country that practiced slavery in 1860) thing the Confederacy did pales in comparison to the Nazis.
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