RE: Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues
September 15, 2017 at 12:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2017 at 12:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 15, 2017 at 11:52 am)Minimalist Wrote: So by that reasoning we should put up statues of Hitler, Attila, and Tamerlane?
They were traitors. Traitors in most countries get hung, they do not get statues.
I seem to recall offering the damnatio memoriae option in another..identical..thread. That's the form our monument to Benedict Arnold took. The purported joke around camp being..that we'd put a medal on his leg and hang the rest of him as a traitor.
So we did. At least in memory. The same could be done for confederate "heroes". We did as much to their union counterparts...so why not?
(rhetorical, I know why not, it would hurt the racists fee-fees to have their dear leaders even obliquely referred to as traitors and terrorists, no one wants to face confederate history less than a neo-confederate sympathizer)
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