(August 23, 2017 at 9:45 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: History isn't being purged, it's just not being supported by your tax dollars.

Yeah, because it costs so damn much to mow around them.

(August 23, 2017 at 10:51 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(August 23, 2017 at 9:45 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: History isn't being purged, it's just not being supported by your tax dollars.

Yeah, because it costs so damn much to mow around them.

Oh, for Christ's sake!

(August 23, 2017 at 10:51 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(August 23, 2017 at 9:45 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: History isn't being purged, it's just not being supported by your tax dollars.

Yeah, because it costs so damn much to mow around them.

No harder than mowing around a statue of general George Cockburn in the middle of the south lawn of the White House.

You vote to put statues of William Tecumseh Sherman all over Georgia and of George Cockburn all over Washington DC, and you can keep your statues of the treasonous slave driver bastards of the confederacy out of the same "respect for history", you smarmy idiotic piece of hypocritical shit.

These statues weren't erected by objective humans trying to honor the memory of those who had fallen in combat. Nor where the erected to memorialize patriots of our country who (while flawed and representative of their time, like Washington and Jefferson and Franklin, etc) sacrificed to make our country a better and safer place. Statues and memorials to those like Robert E. Lee and the figureheads of the confederacy were largely erected by people in the 20th century looking to support them and give a middle finger to those fighting for equality. These aren't statues from 200 years ago that are time-honored traditions. They aren't memorials to commemorate the fallen and their sacrifice. They don't honor patriots, they honor traitors and the treasonous.

It is somewhat amusing to see all of the white nationalist snowflakes getting triggered by the loss of their bigoted heroes from the public square

(August 23, 2017 at 11:44 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: These statues weren't erected by objective humans trying to honor the memory of those who had fallen in combat. Nor where the erected to memorialize patriots of our country who (while flawed and representative of their time, like Washington and Jefferson and Franklin, etc) sacrificed to make our country a better and safer place. Statues and memorials to those like Robert E. Lee and the figureheads of the confederacy were largely erected by people in the 20th century looking to support them and give a middle finger to those fighting for equality. These aren't statues from 200 years ago that are time-honored traditions. They aren't memorials to commemorate the fallen and their sacrifice. They don't honor patriots, they honor traitors and the treasonous.

It is somewhat amusing to see all of the white nationalist snowflakes getting triggered by the loss of their bigoted heroes from the public square

^^^^^^ SO MUCH THIS!

There is no excuse to keep up engraved words under those statues, much less the statues themselves that were clearly put up to honor those who fought to keep a very vile and cruel institution.

We can teach history without glorifying a horrible past.

(August 23, 2017 at 11:52 am)Brian37 Wrote:

(August 23, 2017 at 11:44 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: These statues weren't erected by objective humans trying to honor the memory of those who had fallen in combat. Nor where the erected to memorialize patriots of our country who (while flawed and representative of their time, like Washington and Jefferson and Franklin, etc) sacrificed to make our country a better and safer place. Statues and memorials to those like Robert E. Lee and the figureheads of the confederacy were largely erected by people in the 20th century looking to support them and give a middle finger to those fighting for equality. These aren't statues from 200 years ago that are time-honored traditions. They aren't memorials to commemorate the fallen and their sacrifice. They don't honor patriots, they honor traitors and the treasonous.

It is somewhat amusing to see all of the white nationalist snowflakes getting triggered by the loss of their bigoted heroes from the public square

^^^^^^ SO MUCH THIS!

There is no excuse to keep up engraved words under those statues, much less the statues themselves that were clearly put up to honor those who fought to keep a very vile and cruel institution.

We can teach history without glorifying a horrible past.

I mean, it isn't like Germans don't know about WW2 and Hitler even though they don't have any statues commemorating Hitler and the Nazis.

(August 23, 2017 at 12:10 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:

Add some orange mold growing on the walls and it can double as the trump monument.

(August 23, 2017 at 10:51 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:

(August 23, 2017 at 9:45 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: History isn't being purged, it's just not being supported by your tax dollars.

Yeah, because it costs so damn much to mow around them.

Yeah, and they're on public property, which means the state's liable for injuries dumbfucks like you sustain while getting their picture taken with Longstreet. Do you even, or ever, think about this shit? 

No, of course not.

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(August 23, 2017 at 12:10 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:

A map of the US at the bottom...

(August 23, 2017 at 11:53 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote:

(August 23, 2017 at 11:52 am)Brian37 Wrote: ^^^^^^ SO MUCH THIS!

There is no excuse to keep up engraved words under those statues, much less the statues themselves that were clearly put up to honor those who fought to keep a very vile and cruel institution.

We can teach history without glorifying a horrible past.

I mean, it isn't like Germans don't know about WW2 and Hitler even though they don't have any statues commemorating Hitler and the Nazis.

BINGO! 

Funny how today's Germany knows and accepts it's dark history without glorifying it.

Why anyone thinks Slavery should be treated any differently is beyond me.