Virginia removed statue of losing General Robert E. Lee from state capitol

So brave

u misspelled vagina

Robert E. Lee chose the South just because Virginia did. He was a Virginian first.

So they're blaming him for defending a decisions the state made.

I’m sure that ended racism

Iconoclasts are simpletons.

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Virginia removes a statue of man who chose it over his country.

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Pretty much this.

I am by no means a Confederate apologist but I am a historian whose preferential area of study is the American Civil War. This idea of American Nationalism is a post-Civil War phenomenon. In 1860, the only interaction Americans had with the federal government was the post office. The only time they'd see an American flag waving in the breeze is when they were passing by a federal court house or a U.S. military installation.

The vast majority of people who lived in the United States during this period considered themselves Virginians or New Yorkers first and Americans second. At that particular point in time, it was a common held belief that the United States of America was a collection of independent nations held together and loosely regulated by a central government in Washington, D.C.

This country is starting to have more in common with the Taliban than any other Western Hemisphere country.

It is sad that we are a country of hurt feelings now.

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Great Americans like Lincoln, Grant

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I think you mean horrible wyt racists who should be scrubbed from history.

Time to topple the lincoln monument

Finally, all our problems have been solved. Praise Governor Coonman!

You are an idiot.