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Topic	FYI: Destroying a monument isn't erasing history. Y'know why?
Questionmarktarius 08/16/17 7:34:56 PM #22:	Antifar posted... RebelElite791 posted... Plus the monuments in question are not relics of actual Confederate-era history but a result of an attempted revisionist push during the Civil Rights era. This is the key point. Monuments that truly reckoned with the Civil War might highlight emancipation, or the thousands of Southerners who fought for the Union. There's a reason the South is dotted instead with marble confederates, and it's not about preserving history. The same sort of movement as the one in the 50's that got "under God" shoehorned into the pledge? <cite>Questionmarktarius posted [p:884907528] in FYI: Destr... [t:75678105]...</cite> <quote><cite>Antifar posted...</cite> <quote><cite>RebelElite791 posted...</cite> <quote>Plus the monuments in question are not relics of actual Confederate-era history but a result of an attempted revisionist push during the Civil Rights era. </quote> This is the key point. Monuments that truly reckoned with the Civil War might highlight emancipation, or the thousands of Southerners who fought for the Union. There's a reason the South is dotted instead with marble confederates, and it's not about preserving history.</quote> The same sort of movement as the one in the 50's that got "under God" shoehorned into the pledge?</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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