Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule

He had his road to Damascus moment.

Good thing Saul/Paul didn’t have Seidule’s attitude towards his former pals. Seidule clearly enjoys having a seat at the popular kids’ table.

That said, there was some interesting stuff in the book.


ETA: this isn’t the OT, I’d honestly like to hear the reason for a downvote.

He’s a historian with a personal agenda at best. His book has little to do with historical analysis and much to do with selective crafting of a narrative that puts him in a positive light among liberal intellectuals. Qualified critics have already discussed his book’s shortcomings.

Context is important. He was jumping from an insular posting at West Point to a liberal woke college, Hamilton, into an academia that puts woke conformity above all else and has no respect for the military or soldiers.

One can almost feel sympathy that he felt compelled to write a book demeaning his ancestors and checking all the right woke boxes in order to be respected and accepted in liberal progressive woke academia.

He’s pandering to a woke audience to make himself immune to being cancelled. How can he be a racist if he takes a dump on Robert E. Lee, the Confederacy, and American history in general?

He’ll eventually be eviscerated, drawn, quartered, and eaten alive when the woke mob decides to turn on him. The radical left always devours itself.

And I’m not a lost causer or pro-slavery apologist for the Confederacy and her peculiar institution.