(April 15, 2024 at 11:56 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(April 15, 2024 at 11:10 am)ShinyCrystals Wrote: Plus, anti-slavery or not, Robert E. Lee was still with the South to fight for his state, Virginia. To me, being anti-slavery is not enough to keep him from being remembered as a good guy when he sided with the South, the Confederates, who were basically traitors to the USA, by the way.
Lee is said by some to have opposed slavery, but the fact is that he owned them, and the state he was fighting for seceded in order to preserve the right of whites to own others.
Lee too was a traitor to the United States, taking up arms against the nation he swore to defend. Although I'm sure that, like Hitler, Lee loved his dog.
On that first part, I should have known how fishy his being anti-slavery was, so thanks for mentioning that.
But yes, Lee was a traitor, along with the other confederates. I do wonder if he really wanted to defend the United States like he swore to? Doubtful, at least to me. Still, if one is for the United States, they would not side with the traitors, and he did.