[Leaning Right]

This is evidently a letter to the editor. The writer makes many good points. It's a bit surprising that the LA Times chose to print it.

[impactplayer]

When the war started, Lee owned no slaves, but Grant did - I think they tore down the wrong statue.

[BenLurkin]

R E Lee was the greatest American general.

[awelliott]

There are many more CSA icons who are deserving of a memorial, but I get the general point.

[sodpoodle]

Destroying historical artifacts should be illegal. Wait until these fiends find out there are similar artifacts and portraits in museums and galleries - will they trash them too?

Before modern photography and sound recording, history was documented in sculpture and paintings.

God help us.

[blueplum]

when will the city of NOLA remove all traces of that bad slave nation, France? and outlaw caste-based languages?

[Chainmail]

"the Vietnam Veterans Memorial represents a period of public divisiveness. It has been called the memorial that nobody wanted except the Vietnam vets."

That has to be the most insulting, stupid, offensive thing anyone could say about that memorial. It list all the dead young men who gave everything they had to this country and it is a comfort to the families of those young men and those of us who survived. It only goes to show the rank sliminess and ingratitude of the dimbulb Left.

[DoodleDawg]

He got the part about the slaves wrong. Lee freed the last of them in December 1862, not years before the Civil War.

For the record I'm opposed to removing the statues in New Orleans.

[Honorary Serb]

At West Point, cadets study the military strategies of Robert E Lee and Stonewall Jackson, among others. Removing the monuments to these great generals will remove the historical context for these battles and strategies.

Besides that, another letter to the LA Times asserts that removing the monuments will enable Americans to “stop fighting the Civil War”. Well, the anti-Trump “resistance” is planning a summer of violence that might constitute a new American civil war. Are we to believe that the AntiFa insurrection of 2017 is our first civil war?

[fwdude]

Never accuse a Democrat, leftist, or social justice warrior of being straight on history - ever.

[Thibodeaux]

The Black plague leaders behind the removals should be lynched or at least stood against the wall and shot.