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[–] KingoftheMolePeople 0 points 19 points (+19|-0) ago 

Should probably start now..."What slavery? There was no civil war. We'd have statues and monuments if there was a war"

[–] GuyIDisagreeWith 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Without the Civil War slavery would never have ended.

Eeny, meany, miney, moe. Catch a…

EDIT: Also (forbidden are) women already married, except those (captives and slaves) whom your right hands possess..

[–] fat_pony 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Nigger by its toe.

[–] leahbettsisdead 2 points 0 points (+2|-2) ago 

My town has a statue of Hitler to remind us who we fought againts in WWII.

[–] c0olking 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) ago 

Picture?

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[–] forgetme 0 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago 

Strange how removing civil war statues is likely to cause a civil war....

[–] thealtright 0 points 1 points (+1|-0) ago 

Haha the irony!

[–] Ricky93 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) ago 

Its a chance to put up new ones :D

[–] Ho-Lee-Fuk 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

When the civil war monuments are gone... SLAVERY NEVER HAPPENED. Time to end affirmative action.

[–] Individual 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Their goal is to say White people never happened.

[–] WildernessOne 0 points 1 points (+1|-0) ago 

No, their goal is to say that White people were never worth respecting because racism.

From there, it's only a small step to finishing us off for good.

[–] Eleutheria 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

No need to have section 8 programs, we were equal since the country was founded by Alexander Hamilton, the freestyle rapping African American portrayed in full accuracy on Broadway!

[–] shoto 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

No. You don't understand the left. The left thinks confederate statues represent pro-slavery. They think history is black and white like star wars:bad guys wear bad uniforms, good guys wear good uniforms. Ironically the civil war was about state's rights vs the federal governments, Just like the little rebel alliance in star wars vs the over arching evil empire.

[–] WildernessOne 0 points 0 points (+0|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The root causes of the actual war did go back to slavery... which included the economic and political system of the South and the extra power that white Southerners got in Congress due to the 3/5 compromise leading to over-representation in the House. The fights over "states' rights" really were all about the states' rights to ignore Federal laws regarding slavery. There's no need to try to whitewash that.

HOWEVER... that's not why your ordinary Southerner was enlisting to fight. At that time, people were more identified with their state than with the federal government. People thought of themselves as South Carolinians first, US Citizens second. When their state succeeded and the US Government was sending troops in to conquer them, your typical Southerner joined up to protect their homes and families. A good white Southern man's honor wouldn't allow that type of shame and rape to fall upon their homeland. Then you had Union armies like Sherman's troops prove that they were damned right to be afraid for the lives of their women and children.

But now... yeah... they were just all evil racists who fought the Civil War and died by the tens of thousands because they just REALLY hated black people so much they wanted to make sure a tiny amount of the population could own them...

[–] littlemissfister 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

No it probably just starts another one.

[–] WHITEPOWER_ranger 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Next will be burning the books that mention it.

History is already repeating itself.

[–] dahjercanaan 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

  1. Rewriting History is an important step for those who want to bring slavery back to America.
  2. It could cause another Civil War for those old enough to remember what they were taught, against an ignorant younger generation.

[–] Fred 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

You'd have a better argument of racism by leaving them there to constantly reference.

That purpose would be better served (and better put into a historical context, instead of the romanticized "War of Northern Aggression" stuff.) by having them in a museum. Same reason Germany has no big heroically posed statues for soldiers in WW2 in the middle of public squares or in front of courthouses.

Since slavery and the Civil war would only exist in books, couldnt you say thats all fake stuff that white people wrote and it never happened?

Only if the person claiming as such wanted to be treated like a Holocaust denier.

... slavery was a white myth.

I doubt that anyone but the most foolish would consider that position seeing as how there's shit tons of historical documentation about slavery having happened, from museums with artifacts, to heritage sites showing stops in the underground railroad, to historical newspaper articles, to picture evidence in some cases.

[–] HighEnergyLife [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I agreee with possibly moving them to a museum, but they should absolutely not be destroyed.

To President Trumps argument, whos next then. Would Washington or Jefferson monuments be removed because they owned slaves? They're right in DC.

[–] Fred 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I get the feeling that the Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, et. al. statues aren't being criticized because they owned slaves, but because they fought a war of secession against the United States, in part (The degree is up to your own interpretation, I believe it is a large one, based on my own reading of the declarations of cause several states released in conjunction with their declarations of secession.) for the right to hold them.

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