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Originally Posted by G1911
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Originally Posted by Tabe
If the plaques on them were along the lines of (paraphrase), "Robert E Lee, traitorous leader of the Confederacy...blah blah blah", I could be persuaded to agree with you. But that's not what they were. They were statues to honor those leaders, tributes to them. Makes no sense.
Ditto for naming *military bases* after them. WTF. Do we have a Fort Rommel somewhere I'm not aware of?
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as americans we have a complicated history.
the story below outlines a march of triumph over a bridge.
i cite the story to help better illustrate that we have the power over objects and what they mean today.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/17/87968...s-wide-support