RE: Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues
September 9, 2017 at 9:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2017 at 9:27 pm by Court Jester.)
(September 9, 2017 at 9:23 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: CJ, do you, a veteran, honestly support the public display and maintenance of statues honoring these men for the treason to country and oath they committed is appropriate?
Kind of a tough question really. Over all though (read explanation below); yes. I absolutely support it and absolutely every "educated" person should.
On one hand; they were men with an ideology that planned to split the nation into two. I can't support that. I shake my head at any red neck retard that flies the rebal flag from the bed of their truck. I can't understand what they want to prove by that because based on the condition of their truck, they can't be educated enough to think too overly critically. Could be wrong; likely not.
On the other hand; They went into the civil war with very good reason in the scope of an equal republic. Fom that, some very positive changes did come from the civil way that equalized the levels of representation for all states even as the nation was grown. We see those changes in government even today. I can very much support the south's reasons for the civil war and we should all be very thankful that it was faught so that all states have equal representation.
It's sad that people are educated as they are and I have to close with this (though most won't read this far) the civil war was not started or faught over slavery until it was thrown in near the end when it was clear that the north was going to win. Many states were also permitted to keep their slaves. Nearly all of them were Union states.
Lincoln also made it clear that blacks should not have the same rights as whites and should be sent back to where they came from. No sain person can argue that slavery was wrong, but slavery was not what they were fighting for.
They were fighting for equal representation within the US Government. So do I feel that we should rip down the statues of men fighting for equal government representation? No. I don't. As a veteran; can I support what they did? Yeah. Any person that really knows history would agree. Anything less is really just ignorant/narrow minded retardation justice.
In the end, the statues are just that. Statues. Chunks of metal and stone. The sad part is that such a high number of individuals within the country are so uneducated that they have no clue what the civil war was really about. Because of that ignorance, they want to rip down the symbols of what they them selves want. Equal representation within government for what they/you want.
