Posted on 08/20/2017 2:24:46 AM PDT by Daffynition
In the wake of Charlottesville, a chorus of media outlets, political activists, and random people on the Internet have called for the removal or destruction of Confederate statues in cities across the country. They say we shouldn’t honor a bunch of racists who fought to preserve slavery, and that it’s long past time for these painful reminders of our past to come down—stow them away in a museum or smash them to pieces, just get them off the streets.
This iconoclastic impulse is a mistake, even after the harrowing events in Charlottesville last weekend. It’s a mistake not because there was anything noble about the Confederacy or its raison d’être, which was slavery, but because there is something noble—and, for a free people, necessary—about preserving our history so we can understand who we are and how we should live.
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Confederate statues are monuments to states rights which is an anathema to statists and globalists everywhere.
So what will be done about Hollywood’s depiction of our history in films like “Twelve Years A Slave”?
I viewed this film in Baltimore with a mostly black audience and actually feared for our safety.
Is Hollywood going to be called to task for such works of art about our history as a nation?
Only a matter of time before arson and bombings occur in the museums.
Finally had a chance to go to Stone Mountain yesterday. It confirmed for me that black intansigence toward the Confederacy is largely a myth, as the majority of employees there are, and at least 30% of attendees were black.
If they destroyed that frieze on the manadnock’s wall, I’m convinced the place would have to close.
The monument issue is the same battle as the current free speech issue on our campuses. Anything that someone on the left don’t want to hear or see must be banned. Books, sidewalk chalk, conservative guests, all things that offend must be banned.
Agree.
Sheesh..digging up a grave is unreal.
Saw on another thread they are going after christopher Columbus
Only if things are allowed to continue unchecked.
One problem is that for all their huffing and puffing the southern "nationalist" movement is weaker than a wet noodle and chock-a-block full of separatists and supremacists.
To be accurate they symbolically dug up a little grass. Digging up the grave would be...like...work. And that wasn't going to happen.
There was nothing noble about Sherman’s march to the sea.....burning homes and towns to the ground!
The South was brought to its knees....
.....but we rose to be stronger
Why do you think these Southern states are called the Bible Belt
That’s all we had left......our FAITH!
Some of these monuments torn down or in line to be torn down were representative of a son of the community who, like many, left their homes or farms in the hollows to protect what little they have......they had never owned a slave and never would.....but they died defending what little they had.
In the Bible,God himself told his people to build monuments to acknowledge and/ or honor what had happened.
In the Civil War there were imperfect people on both sides.
To desecrate the memory of these young men, of these noble generals like Robert E Lee ISN’T honoring America....
....call it what it is.....Fascism!!
The simplistic, “it was all about slavery”, leaves little space in the national memory for anything but the ancestors(my ancestors) of all Southerners were evil.
I have no feeling that ‘all Southerners’, including your ancestors, are in the least bit ‘evil’; they are/were as good and bad as all the rest of us are...
Bttt
In tearing down history, the acts themselves become history. Years from now our progeny will look back and wonder about this moment in history. Just as people of this time now look back and wonder about the witch hunts of Salem. “What were those people thinking, could they have been that uninformed and misled?” This ignorance is being recorded now as it happens. The broken and crumpled statue of Durham, viewed in a museum years from now, will be proof it really happened. That alone should guide future generations to avoid the mistake. But it won’t.
‘You tried to spew your hate about the ridiculous and simplistic meme that the Civil War was “all about slavery”’
very few people believe that the CW was ‘all about slavery’; however, the secession of the first seven states was inextricably tied to the future of slavery in the western states...they feared the influence of the abolitionists in the Republican agenda, the prospect of no new slave states, and they resented this, as any expansion westward would have freed their slaves...and while secession is not ‘open rebellion’, historically it has been used as a justification for hostilities...
‘Just as people of this time now look back and wonder about the witch hunts of Salem.’
not an apt analogy; no one was hanged or crushed by stones at Durham...
One of my previous self-described ‘Progressive activist’ Master’s level political professors argued the Civil War erased state rights and the Constitution’s ‘rules’. She did not see it as the binding Contract it is. Even often called it a ‘living document’ while teaching the many changes to states constitutions. It was easy to see the agenda. Un-believable.
I wish I knew then, and could have brought up, the Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s quote of it being a binding legal document. Of course, probably impossible to educate an already indoctrinated ‘progressive professor’.
For later
Is it any surprise that those on whom history frowns should endeavor to erase it?
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