Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We have finally come to grips with the idea that the KKK paid for those statues with the intent of reminding the Negros where their place was in society. Should we continue that tradition?

That's a classic genetic fallacy.  It doesn't matter where the statues came from-- if they were paid for by the KKK or by the Ghandi World Peace Trust Fund, they are memorials to great generals of the losing side.  They are part of American culture, and sufficiently many American citizens see value in them as historical artifacts that they felt it worth demonstrating.

This is still what it comes down to-- the KKK et al are now a minority, and their getting theirs back-- they are being marginalized as they once marginalized others, and mocked as they once mocked others.  I don't fail to see the justice in it, and tbh I doubt they do either, thought they won't much like it.

That being said, General Lee was in fact a great man-- a worthy opponent to the North, brave and clever.  Much is to be learned from a man that great being so clearly on the wrong side of social philosophy, and we can learn more from a real consideration of his life and actions than we can from burning books.

Bullshit, they are used to remind blacks that they are still targets of the KKK.