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To: browniexyz

Every Lee County in America and every park and every city named after Civil War “heroes” will change their names within a year. That’s my bet.

I remember years ago a subdivision in Atlanta had streets named after characters in GONE WITH THE WIND. There was a big deal to get the names changed because they represented slavery. That was by the same kind of people who go to Atlanta and want to know where Rhett and Scarlett are buried.


152 posted on 06/22/2015 10:18:23 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'm very sad for my country. Personally, I've never been happier.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
Every Lee County in America and every park and every city named after Civil War “heroes” will change their names within a year. That’s my bet.

The Romans formalized that practice as damnatio memoriae, "damnation of memory". They defaced statues and inscriptions and removed every public reference to the "damned" person from view with a chisel, if necessary.

Easily accessible example: On the arch of Septimius Severus there is a dedicatory inscription (both sides, coming and going) to Septimius, of course, and also to his (surviving) son, Caracalla, who oversaw the completion of the arch in 211 or 212 AD. In the third or fourth line of the inscription there is a short line. This is what is left of an erased line that originally named Caracalla's murdered brother Geta as one of the dynasty celebrating the consecration of the arch. (One senator who made a joke about surnaming Caracalla "Geticus", "conqueror of the Getae", paid with his head.)

The short line is a mute reminder of the fact that Caracalla was a vindictive political mass murderer who practiced both mutilation of the bodies of his victims (a number have been found buried together in Britain ) and damnatio memoriae.

156 posted on 06/23/2015 12:17:54 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: VerySadAmerican

We have statues of Confederate generals and people are calling for their removal....


165 posted on 06/23/2015 4:37:17 AM PDT by browniexyz
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