re: Alabama lawmakers approve Confederate monument protections

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The monuments celebrate a bad cause.

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And what would that cause be? States' Rights could easily be argued. As could the right of secession. Heritage for those of us who have ancestors who fought.

Or, as the counterpoint, racial oppression and hatred? Either way, enough people fought for 'the cause,' and it's worth memorializing them. And for what it's worth, isolating that war to one cause is grossly simplifying the conflict and what led up to it.

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If you want them for history, stick them in a museum. If you want them for heritage reasons, i can think of 1,001 other things to represent 400 years of Southern heritage.

Not celebrating people related to the worst four years of Southern and US history.

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Then tear down every monument to every Union high profile "hero," especially Sherman. People seem to forget that by today's standards he would be a war criminal, and Lincoln was as fascist as they come. But he preserved the Union, half of which didn't want to be preserved and had the constitutional right to leave, but he won and is declared a hero, so history is written by the victors, right?