Why are there no American statues of Hitler or Hirohito, but so many of Lee

aloysious said:
By that logic Americans are traitors to the crown.
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Many loyalists at the time felt exactly that way.
Loyalists to the crown were not, however, Americans
Lee left the nation and the army that he had sworn allegiance to, in order to kill the Americans that he once served with.
There can never be honor in that, never.
 
Irish said:
Why are we trying to take it down, is the real question. Its not because of slavery, or anything else. The left wants to erase any white history in its continued quest to repeal and replace America.
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Because taking down a few statues is going to lower the murder rate, make blacks stop burning down neighborhoods, get off welfare and there will be no more black fatherless families.

What's wrong with you? lol
 
Threedee said:
He didn't come close to winning. This is like saying that if America had sent out a competent general in 1861 to lead the Peninsula Campaign, instead of the worthless George B. McClellan, that we would have been crushing it.
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If he didn't charge into Gettysburg, and instead pinsured around like his aid Longstreet recommended. He very well could have won Gettysburg, and thus captured DC. Forcing a negotiated end.
 
Trump Diva said:
Because taking down a few statues is going to lower the murder rate, make blacks stop burning down neighborhoods, get off welfare and there will be no more black fatherless families.

What's wrong with you? lol
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Are they going to take down statues of Malcolm X? A black racist?
 
Irish said:
If he didn't charge into Gettysburg, and instead pinsured around like his aid Longstreet recommended. He very well could have won Gettysburg, and thus captured DC. Forcing a negotiated end.
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yea! somebody knows their Civil War battles! good
 
Irish said:
Sounds like a lack of historical knowledge. Lee almost won many times, despite being outnumbered and out armed.
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1st Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) - was that Lee?
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Antietam * ( sort of)
and many stalemates against superior forces
 
Corazón said:
There is, dopey!


http://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/01/Americas-Monument-to-Its-Most-Infamous-Traitor-Benedict-Arnold/
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The monument to Arnold is known as the Boot Monument. That’s because it makes no mention of Arnold by name and honors the leg that was broken during the battle. The inscription reads:
In memory of the most brilliant soldier of the Continental army, who was desperately wounded on this spot, winning for his countrymen the decisive battle of the American Revolution, and for himself the rank of Major General.
 
evince said:
The monument to Arnold is known as the Boot Monument. That’s because it makes no mention of Arnold by name and honors the leg that was broken during the battle. The inscription reads:
In memory of the most brilliant soldier of the Continental army, who was desperately wounded on this spot, winning for his countrymen the decisive battle of the American Revolution, and for himself the rank of Major General.
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So what?
 
Corazón said:
No I speak English not Septic!
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Covfefe said:
Pictures can be hung, but people are always hanged. ... Hanged, as a past tense and a past participle of hang, is used in the sense of “to put to death by hanging,” as in Frontier courts hanged many a prisoner after a summary trial. A majority of the Usage Panel objects to hung used in this sense.[COLOR=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.541176)]Dec 5, 2005[/COLOR]
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Ok you win, don't let it go to your head!
 
Lee was a good example of a decent-ish person who was pulled into supporting evil by family and local pieties. I suppose that, before the Nazis began to loom again, statues to such people were attempts to reconcile the real scumbags to civilization.
 
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