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Aug 15, 2017 9:45 PM
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Midgarmerc
This is good
TheGiggityGuy
PrivateIsotope
LOLOLOL!
xheroth
Erasing history is a tradition carried out by respectable groups such as Communists, ISIS, Nazis etc.
UpvoteCarsNGuns
And another repost...
BrandonMoon
And you have done nothing but lurk
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BrandonMoon
hush
SaraFourImgur
puppies
CanTunaPiano
Something about the Vietnam memorial?
iseefeces
remind me again, is the Vietnam memorial in Vietnam??
apparentlysethrogen
BrandonMoon
Not really a trophy
TallStormDragon
so what about the Durham statue that was torn down that represented the drafted soldiers in the confederacy who had no choice but to fight?
CanTunaPiano
Neither are Confederate monuments
BrandonMoon
Sure. W/E
CanTunaPiano
Lol
glovelyday
Memorials remember the dead. Monuments celebrate individuals. Monuments to slavers are repugnant. Memorials to dead soldiers are not.
Randomshitforfun
But what about memorials to the dead confederate soldiers, like the one torn down by protestors, not just for one specific person
glovelyday
Roll of dead fine, but "to the fallen who died to preserve our precious blah, blah, blah?" No glory for traitors trying to preserve slavery
TallStormDragon
Man you're going to hate at least half of the Mount Rushmore Memorial then!
glovelyday
No, Washington and Jefferson are not celebrated for their contributions to the "institution of slavery", but for the founding of our nation.
TallStormDragon
But they were slavers. Or is your view more complex than "Monuments to slavers repugnant" ? if so then you must view Gen R E Lee in same way
glovelyday
1/ No, lee is a century younger. The founders fought for freedom as they saw it. Lee fought to perpetuate slavery. Big diff. The "States