The pro-Confederates, I refer to are long since dead. Slandering Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson or Jefferson Davis, because they fought for their homeland--or disagreed with someone hereabouts' theories of what should or should not have been done over a century and a half ago, is a form of ostracization.
The writers, to whom I refer, would deny these long honored men, their previously accepted place in history.
Curiously, one does not read where the self-righteous detractors of Robert E. Lee, who did not own slaves, have the consistency to denounce the Patriarchs in the Bible, who did. (A minor point, perhaps. Personally, I agree with the way Douglas MacArthur paid tribute to both the Blue & Gray in his classic address: Duty, Honor, Country.)
Or, more to the point, if the Confederacy was so evil for defending the right to own slaves, doesn't that by implication mean that the United States at the time of its founding was equally evil, since slavery was legal in most states and many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves? That's certainly what the Left wants you to believe: they start by slandering the memory of the Confederacy, because that's an easy target. Once you're numb to their politically correct interpretation of the Civil War, you're halfway to buying into the rest of their agenda, which is defaming the United States and Western culture as "racist" and "oppressive" in general.
This is why you don't have to be a neo-Confederate (I am not) to recognize the campaign of vilification against the Confederacy for what it is: the first front in a PC attack on the US and Western culture generally. The unacknowledged agenda is basically "Down with Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis today. Down with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson tomorrow."
The writers, to whom I refer, would deny these long honored men, their previously accepted place in history.
You're being terribly hypocritical. Neo-Confederates constantly slur and defame Abraham Lincoln, who has been rightly considered a hero and one of our greatest presidents for a century and a half. And you want to wine about how people treat Davis and Lee?
Although my own ancestors fought for the Union (and I believe they were correct to do so), I also deplore the revisionist history that turns the Confederacy into a sort of proto-Nazi Germany. I have to wonder, however, why the leaders of the Confederacy are admired for fighting waging war against the United States while anyone else who did so would be labeled a "traitor" and maybe even a "Communist." But the Confederacy, for some reason, is different.
I also wonder why white Southerners wanting to secede from the Union are "right wing" while angry Blacks who want to secede from the Union and create the "Republic of New Africa" in those very same states are "left wing." Does that make any sense to you?
How can one ostracize a dead person?
Curiously, one does not read where the self-righteous detractors of Robert E. Lee, who did not own slaves, have the consistency to denounce the Patriarchs in the Bible, who did.
Could there ever, possibly, sometime in the universe, conceivably be a scenario wherein someone could point out something about Lee without them being either "self-righteous" or a "detractor" (or both)? BTW: Lee did own slaves.