They are coming down

[Cardinal]

We already censor books in school...

If these people were disreputable, the south wouldn't have put up monuments to honor them. It's vandalism of the worst kind. And it's scarey.

A statue isn't going to tell you more about a person than a book. I didn't learn that General Lee commanded the Confederate Army by looking at a statue of him. Those statues exist for one reason: to honor the person and what he fought for. And I believe the vast majority of monuments are being removed through legal and legitimate means.

 

[MaggieD]

Ah... What?

That's right, Jet. Ever hear the expression one man's trash is another man's treasure?

 

[TheGoverness]

We already censor books in school...

If these people were disreputable, the south wouldn't have put up monuments to honor them. It's vandalism of the worst kind. And it's scarey.

Well of course they weren't disreputable to the Confederates after the Civil War, they viewed them all as heroes.

 

[katzgar]

There was nothing pretend about Lincoln's racism or resettlement policies. They're all a matter of public record.

and so was his changing those opinions later on so go away until you can have an honest discussion.

 

[katzgar]

We already censor books in school...

If these people were disreputable, the south wouldn't have put up monuments to honor them. It's vandalism of the worst kind. And it's scarey.

dear god I hope this comment is in jest

 

[MaggieD]

dear god I hope this comment is in jest

No, it is not. They were heroes to the south. Just because many in this new strange world we live in need unicorns doesn't change that.

 

[katzgar]

No, it is not. They were heroes to the south. Just because many in this new strange world we live in need unicorns doesn't change that.

Unicorns are pretend and the Confederacy has been dead for 150 years.

 

[Napoleon]

and so was his changing those opinions later on so go away until you can have an honest discussion.

That is a verifiably false statement.

 

[katzgar]

That is a verifiably false statement.

than verify it

 

[katzgar]

in his final speech Lincoln was even coming around to suffrage for blacks... Abraham Lincoln's Last Public Address