I think it’s important to remember that Robert E Lee himself wasn’t too keen on civil war monuments:
“I think it wiser,” [Robert E Lee] wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, “…not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered.”
The thing was made 60 years after the war ended. The guy fought against the United States. Never should have been made in the first place. It’s a shame that it took so long to correct this mistake.
A statue less than a hundred years old built to commemorate a traitor who fought against this country for an unrecognized rebel movement formed out of the desire to own people as property. You’re not gonna see Germans erect statues celebrating Hitler, Russians Ukrainians celebrating Stalin, or Cambodians praising Pol Pot. Why should Americans celebrate an enemy of the state?
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I think it’s important to remember that Robert E Lee himself wasn’t too keen on civil war monuments:
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The thing was made 60 years after the war ended. The guy fought against the United States. Never should have been made in the first place. It’s a shame that it took so long to correct this mistake.
Anonymous Lemmy user butthurt that other people don’t want to honor symbols of racism
From 1924. Also it’s just a fucking statue. Grow up.
A statue less than a hundred years old built to commemorate a traitor who fought against this country for an unrecognized rebel movement formed out of the desire to own people as property. You’re not gonna see Germans erect statues celebrating Hitler, Russians Ukrainians celebrating Stalin, or Cambodians praising Pol Pot. Why should Americans celebrate an enemy of the state?
Well, they are transforming it. The new art will probably recognize the old art and pictures exist.
Christ, cry about it more