Re: "Dem Officials Cooking Up Plan to Obliterate Memorial Above Grave of Confederate, Unearth the Deceased Officer"

On Mon, 31 May 2021 19:18:14 -0400, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 5/31/2021 11:54 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:
>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 11:31:43 -0400, Jonathan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 5/31/2021 10:54 AM, David Hartung wrote:
>>>> https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-officials-cooking-plan-obliterate-memorial-grave-confederate-unearth-deceased-officer/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> Democrats in Virginia are set to dig up the remains of a Confederate
>>>> Civil War general and tear down a memorial as the American left
>>>> continues its campaign to rewrite history.
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Good, and if a NAZI symbol was unearthed and burned
>>> I'd be quite happy too.
>>>
>>> The Confederacy was a TRAITOROUS attempt to
>>> overthrow the US govt and constitution.
>>> Not only that it sought to destroy America
>>> in order to keep it's slave-driven economy.
>>>
>>> No one forgets the civil war, but no patriotic
>>> decent thinking AMERICAN should revere those
>>> that attempted to destroy America and
>>> American values, killing hundreds of thousands
>>> of Americans in the process.
>> 
>> I agree with all the facts you've given but not your attitude or your
>> politics. I grew up in a Northern state that provided a large percent
>> of it's male population to the war. I have no direct connection to the
>> Southern cause.
>> 
>> However, I believe the latest orgy of destruction is not aimed at
>> Southern history but the history of the nation in general.
>> 
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>Do you really believe that it's about 'history' and
>not about glorifying slavery and racism?

Statues to Confederate generals etc were not set up to 'glorify
slavery and racism'. 

>
>You're kidding yourself.

I'm not that ignorant.

>And I were to get horribly offended at the
>destruction of NAZI symbols, claiming I'm
>just worried about 'history', would you
>believe that I'm not a supporter of Hitler?

I have a 1939 Iron Cross and a 1935 edition
of 'Mein Kampf' because I collect historical knick-knacks and not
because I love nazis.
>
>> Don't forget - there are statues of Lincoln and Washington that have
>> come down in recent months.
>> 
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>Doesn't bother me.

So you think Lincoln and Washington 'glorified slavery and racism' or
you're simply ignorant in a more general way?

Would bringing down statues of ML King, FDR and JFK bother you?