Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[The Grand Nudger]

Yeah, those guys can't really be defended.

And yet their monuments are, by all of the same arguments as statues of lee are defended.  They -are- hailed as heroes of the lost cause interpretation...and the savagery of the Redlegs is a particularly strong "argument" for the heroism of these men.  We've already discussed the narrative of their monuments.  Here, however, is what a monument to their union analog looks like.


The placard reads as follows;

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Where is the fight for freedom, the defense of the constitution, the heroic struggle?  No, none of that, because this is a monument with actual historical value and context as regards the american civil war...rather than the civil rights movement.  It is a monument to the pointless devastation and brutality of that war, inflicted upon people of any affiliation or no affiliation..and for what?

I see, in one of Bennys responses to Thump above..that there is a notion that people argue for these statues to be removed because they are "offensive" to them.  As though this were the most pressing issue when it comes to said statues.  It is not.  They are not what they purport to be.  They do not explore our history.,..they distort them.  Their existence is not required for racists to keep thinking racist thoughts, or for racists to keep saying racist things.  Their removal, however...-is- required for us to acknowledge our actual history, and to fulfill the promise of our our own highest laws - which is exactly the fucking thing the civil war was fought over.  These things far exceed any "offense" people take at the sight of them, or at the notion of them being removed.

The acceptence of genteel bigotry was precisely what the confederacy agitated for, from the word go. Today, we see Totally Not Racists™ arguing for the same in an even more "civil" form. It's appaling. I;m just glad it;s a fuckin canandian doing it, for once, and not my cousin Cletus.