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

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Franklin Pierce said:
America's largest Confederate statue is removed: Richmond's Robert E. Lee monument comes down in VICTORY for BLM and will now be sent to Goochland Women's Correctional Center

  • Last year, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced it would be brought down in light of the BLM movement
  • The new capsule contains 39 'artifacts' including a BLM sticker, a 'Virginia is for lovers' Pride sticker, an expired COVID vaccine and pictures from a Stop Asian Hate Protest
The crowds of spectators cheered, whooped then broke into song, chanting 'Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey, goodbye' as it was lowered to the ground. They also chanted 'Black Lives Matter'.

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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam watches the Robert E. Lee statue being removed on Wednesday morning. He ordered the statue's removal last summer after George Floyd's death

Virginia's enormous General Robert E. Lee statue is removed in huge victory for BLM | Daily Mail Online
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This guys is a modern communist
 
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Volaholic320 said:
It really shows the ignorance of the modern American youth and the product of years of anti-American education.
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Huh? Robert E Lee's sin was opposing America. And this result has nothing to do with the ignorance of "modern youth". My Grandparents and my parents didn't know Robert E Lee pushed for abolition. It's about winners writing our history books. That is all.
 
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Tyler Durden said:
Odd that your definition of a proponent of civil rights literally led a war against the abolition of slavery.
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It would be odd if that were true. The war was about a lot of things. It started over tariffs, actually. Lee wanted to abolish slavery, and he pushed for the confederacy to do so. It would be odd to fight for the confederacy in order to save slavery while simultaneously advocating the end of slavery.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It would be odd if that were true. The war was about a lot of things. It started over tariffs, actually. Lee wanted to abolish slavery, and he pushed for the confederacy to do so. It would be odd to fight for the confederacy in order to save slavery while simultaneously advocating the end of slavery.
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I've seen a lot of revisionist history around the Confederacy in my day, but saying the guy who literally led a war effort to keep people enslaved was a proponent of civil rights takes the cake. Goebbels didn't hate Jews, he just wanted to showcase the power of creative writing.
 
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n_huffhines said:
It would be odd if that were true. The war was about a lot of things. It started over tariffs, actually. Lee wanted to abolish slavery, and he pushed for the confederacy to do so. It would be odd to fight for the confederacy in order to save slavery while simultaneously advocating the end of slavery.
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Careful, Tyler is about to start imagining what your penis is like
 
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Tyler Durden said:
I've seen a lot of revisionist history around the Confederacy in my day, but saying the guy who literally led a war effort to keep people enslaved was a proponent of civil rights takes the cake. Goebbels didn't hate Jews, he just wanted to showcase the power of creative writing.
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You and EL need to stop talking about history. You two are embarrassing yourselves.
 
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Tyler Durden said:
I've seen a lot of revisionist history around the Confederacy in my day, but saying the guy who literally led a war effort to keep people enslaved was a proponent of civil rights takes the cake. Goebbels didn't hate Jews, he just wanted to showcase the power of creative writing.
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Revisionist is saying the war effort was about keeping people enslaved. It's a gross and inaccurate over-simplification of a complicated event. Lincoln literally said that he didn't intend to free the slaves and that he didn't have the power to do so. Then he promised to invade states that refused to pay tariffs. Then South Carolina didn't pay tariffs. Then they had a showdown.

There a thousand clear and identifiable facts that explain that the war was about many things, but ultimately it was about power. The north had more power and they ran things. It'd be great to say the northern soldiers were righteous men fighting for the freedom of the slaves but they were about the union, mostly. There was relatively little altruism among the victors.
 
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Former President Donald Trump issued a statement Wednesday condemning the removal of a 131-year-old statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, calling the Confederate commander "the greatest strategist of them all" and admiring the statue's artwork.

"Just watched as a massive crane took down the magnificent and very famous statue of ‘Robert E. Lee On His Horse’ in Richmond, Virginia," Trump wrote. "It has long been recognized as a beautiful piece of bronze sculpture. To add insult to injury, those who support this ‘taking’ now plan to cut it into three pieces, and throw this work of art into storage prior to its complete desecration.

Our culture is being destroyed…
— Former President Donald Trump​
Trump deplores removal of Richmond's Robert E. Lee statue
 
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Wait, so black face Northam had the Lee statue cut in half? Whitewashing history? White lib's are something else.
 
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