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re: Rapid mob of liberals pull down Confederate statue in Durham
Posted on 8/14/17 at 9:21 pm to BamaAtl
Posted on 8/14/17 at 9:21 pm to BamaAtl
Oh! Another one! Maybe you'll answer my questions instead of fleeing.
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id also love for some clarification on where the line is to be drawn on statue removal. as ive already said, all great men in history are really, really, horrible men. Caesar? killed hundreds of thousands and enslaved just as many. alexander the great? same. the founders of damn near every country were horrible men who did horrible things to people. yet here we are, glorifying every single one of them. So, where does the line end? do we forgive julius caesar for his horrible transgressions against the gauls and other "barbarians"? Do we forgive Washington for his slaves?
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How about all of the statues of history's greatest men? Caesar enslaved and killed many times over the amount of people as the confederacy. Should we tear down his statues? How about Washington? He fought to create a country which depended on slave labor. How about the founders of damn near every country on the globe? Every man who is remembered and immortalized throughout history have done far more and far worse atrocities than even the worst confederate general whom has a statue. Where do you draw the line? Mount Rushmore? Slave owners and
Posted on 8/14/17 at 9:24 pm to beerJeep
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id also love for some clarification on where the line is to be drawn on statue removal.
If you were a traitorous shitbag racist who fought a slaveholders' rebellion against the US, you don't get a statue on public land.
Let's take Lincoln's lead on this, and frick Robert E. Lee and his confederate allies over every chance we get.
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