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New Orleans begins removing monument to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee/ *Today*

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  1. Josh77

    Josh77 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That's like saying "if you don't live in the Middle East, you shouldn't worry about the ISIS destruction of Roman ruins". History goes beyond simple stupid art, and should be kept in public display. I'm sure there was plenty of room for their other art pieces elsewhere.
     
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  2. katzgar

    katzgar Banned

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    monuments to disgusting
     
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  3. btthegreat

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    Well then go make some more noise until you get your views heard and responded to. Everyone thinks the 'other side' is full of an ignorant minority when they lose.
     
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  4. Capitalism

    Capitalism Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Some of the oldest history we know about was public display. Statues in Egypt? You know those things that have helped identify multiple pharoahs/religious deities of their culture.

    The Sphinx.

    The Stone Heads of Easter island. (Should be, "The Stone people" since they do have bodies beneath the soil.

    Palmyra before ISIS got to it.

    All of the Aztec cities.

    The Carnac stones

    The Nazca Lines
     
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  5. katzgar

    katzgar Banned

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    Lee fought for the confederacy which was all about preserving slavery, slavery is bad so Lee is bad
     
    katzgar, May 20, 2017
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    Such a tyrant yet wanted to resupply their forts instead of blow them up and still wanted to negotiate rather than fight.
     
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  7. Capitalism

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    No it wasn't. Stop propagating lies.
     
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    Capitalism Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No he didn't. He didn't want to negotiate. He wanted all or nothing. Which is why those troops never left ft Sumter.

    He knew the provacation he was making.
     
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  9. katzgar

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    the thing isnt going to the scrap dump. Why are you making up a lie?
     
    katzgar, May 20, 2017
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  10. katzgar

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    absolutely it was, read the articles of secession it is what the reason given was. your revisionism is showing
     
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    'History' has little to do with what gets displayed on public land. Whether Stalin continues to have a place in every city park in Russia or not ( they removed virtually all his statues) ,his historical place is still assured in every history book on communism . Its their friggin park, not yours and they have no duty to history to collect statue after statue after statue because there may be a superficial paragraph or two on the bottom describing him in accolades.

    That is not history. Its propaganda enshrined in metal and marble.
     
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  12. trucker

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    so the super state lover hang em all high judgeron is back;)
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    Is this the moronic nonsense that passes for history education nowadays?
     
    Libby, May 20, 2017
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    yes, your racism counts less and less in this country thankfully
     
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    Is that why slaves were kept in union states for years after the war?
     
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    Don't they mean a traitor who conspired to overthrow the legitimate government of the US?
     
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    You funny :)

    Katzgar is a good example of what happens when history is ignored or swept under a rug LMFAO :)
     
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    No, Lincoln definitely wanted to resupply the forts, not fight it out immediately.
     
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    dont like history I take it.
     
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    You obviously still either didn't read my previous post, or you entirely missed the point of it.
     
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    And I suppose we should have hung George Washington for the same reason? He betrayed Britain, who we were all a part of.
     
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    and yet name calling is all ya got just another confederate apologist.
     
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  23. trucker

    trucker Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    so they your types are that sheep minded, they cant see the statue is about a us general that rebel against it. because the SUPER state went lets tax your cotton industry so much, you will buckle under to the Northern WO?
     
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    It would have been the British who hung GW.

    Yes, and the founders knew they were committing treason, even as they signed the Declaration of Independence.

    Difference is...they won.

    Winning is everything.
     
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  25. trucker

    trucker Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    ok so it was a little dramatic of me;) not a outright lie..
     
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