Exclusive Removal of Historical Confederate Monuments

Thoughts on this?

Isn't this what the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan? They are destroying ancient monuments which they see as against their value system.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/co...ate-monument-starts-in-new-orleans/ar-BBAefFl

 

Fucking fascists...

 

we should keep all of the racist statues, and use them to teach people that racist statues exist. for history.

 

Washington owned slaves, right? And Jefferson?

We should take down all the monuments and rename all of the many "Washington" tributes across our country.

 

A STATUE IS FOREVER

 

If that's what that state wants to do, it should obviously be up to them. Once the federal government starts trying to pull this shit is when I will start to take issue.

 

I'm not a southerner, but I never understood the glorification of a bunch of anti-American traitors anyway. This latest moral panic is kind of dumb though, I guess they should take down the American flag everywhere because it was present when soldiers were murdering Native American women and children too.

 

seriously, if there is a statue of any kind, you have to keep it right where it is, forever. or else you are isis.

 

if they really want statues, all they need to do is rise again. theyve been talking about it for long enough.

 

I think the thing that people forget is that the colonies used to be very individualistic. There was a ton of pride in coming from Virginia, or South Carolina, etc. That's why it was really a miracle that they were able to get the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution ratified by all the states.

These days there isn't nearly as much pride in where you're born. So when the North invaded the South, or tried to impose its values on the South, it was seen as almost another nation trying to destroy their way of life. So it's really not surprising that they kept the flags and the monuments as a "fuck you" to the North. With that said, times are different now, but I don't see the point in whitewashing the past. It's an important reminder.

 

Hey, they can just put a statue of an empowered 10 year old girl there to replace them.

 

They should put all the the shit in a museum. I'm sure there's holocaust museums in Germany. But I doubt there's statues commemorating Hitler, and SS scientists or generals, throughout Germany.

That's an assumption. I may be wrong.

When I heard they still flew the confederate flag in certain government places. My first though was: "Didn't we win that war?"

 

For some its like flying a rainbow flag. Just a symbol of pride.

 

I guess it all comes down to what's being memorialized? I mean if, there's statues of Major Whats-his-face with in downtown New Orleans who was best known for "beatin' his negroes good" then yeah, I'm OK with getting rid of that kind of shit.

Not every memorial is the same.