Richmond is taking down Confederate statues: Is this the end for other Confederate memorials?

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bamawriter said:
To take down statues and busts of a man who committed genocide. To take his image off of our currency. To make sure that The Hermitage is a site dedicated to remembrance in the vein of Auschwitz, where hopefully any revenue generated goes to Native American causes.
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Nice you can sit here in 2020 and judge the actions of people in the days of the wild frontier, a couple hundred years ago, by today's standards. It was like the animal kingdom at that time. The strong survived.
 
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bamawriter said:
To take down statues and busts of a man who committed genocide. To take his image off of our currency. To make sure that The Hermitage is a site dedicated to remembrance in the vein of Auschwitz, where hopefully any revenue generated goes to Native American causes.
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Godwined it.
 
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1972 Grad said:
Nice you can sit here in 2020 and judge the actions of people in the days of the wild frontier, a couple hundred years ago, by today's standards. It was like the animal kingdom at that time. The strong survived.
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Jackson wasn't on the frontier, he was in the White House.
 
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Velo Vol said:
The government doesn't tear people apart--the people that run it do.
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To me they are one in the same. The people that run our government have no clue what it's like for the common man. Divide and conquer, that is all they know. You can't have government without the people running it.
 
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toeflood said:
To me they are one in the same. The people that run our government have no clue what it's like for the common man. Divide and conquer, that is all they know. You can't have government without the people running it.
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So you believe the U.S. Constitution is defective?
 
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1972 Grad said:
Nice you can sit here in 2020 and judge the actions of people in the days of the wild frontier, a couple hundred years ago, by today's standards. It was like the animal kingdom at that time. The strong survived.
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This isn't 15 AD, we knew the Trail of Tears was a bad idea by then
 
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bamawriter said:
To take down statues and busts of a man who committed genocide. To take his image off of our currency. To make sure that The Hermitage is a site dedicated to remembrance in the vein of Auschwitz, where hopefully any revenue generated goes to Native American causes.
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At least you Admit you are a Communist who is supporting the Revolution.
 
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bamawriter said:
Jackson wasn't on the frontier, he was in the White House.
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So, I guess he didn't fight in the Creek War, wasn't captured and imprisoned in the Revolutionary War, didn't fight in the First Seminole War, the Battle of New Orleans, didn't lose 2 brothers due to the Revolutionary War, a father in a logging accident, etc.? Doesn't sound like he spent his entire life in downtown D.C. to me. You probably need to brush up on your history, but you are probably to young to have learned anything other than revisionist history.
 
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clarksvol00 said:
Yeah. They're so upset over taking down some old statues.
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It’s a historical statue that has stood for a long time and that’s the point. It seems that some people just want to forget history and what happened and who was involved in those events. It takes a small minded weak person to let a simple statue cause grief.
 
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Velo Vol said:
So you believe the U.S. Constitution is defective?
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I believe in the constitution. I believe in those men that wrote it. I also believe we have somehow veered off the path that was set before us. We are a divided nation. Blue vs Red, Black vs White, Wealthy vs Poor.
 
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1972 Grad said:
So, I guess he didn't fight in the Creek War, wasn't captured and imprisoned in the Revolutionary War, didn't fight in the First Seminole War, the Battle of New Orleans, didn't lose 2 brothers due to the Revolutionary War, a father in a logging accident, etc.? Doesn't sound like he spent his entire life in downtown D.C. to me. You probably need to brush up on your history, but you are probably to young to have learned anything other than revisionist history.
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Where was he when he commissioned the Indian Removal Act?
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
If you cannot seriously see that a Confederate general and the Taliban are not in the same universe then there is little help for you. Like I said, you are very weak minded.
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I'm not asking for your help. Just asking for you to explain your position, which apparently you're incapable of doing.
 
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BigOrangeTrain said:
It’s a historical statue that has stood for a long time and that’s the point. It seems that some people just want to forget history and what happened and who was involved in those events. It takes a small minded weak person to let a simple statue cause grief.
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I'm more than fine with them putting up a statue of an abolitionist instead, in order to "remember who was involved with those events." I suspect you prefer the Confederate soldier, for some reason.
 
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