And like that, America's history is scrubbed

Cypress said:
By the 1860s there was an international consensus that slavery was wrong. Chattel slavery was illegal almost everywhere in the western world by the 1860s except in the American South.

Everyone had read, or was aware of Uncle Tom's cabin, in the 1860s and was aware of the immorality of slavery.

By the 1860s the excuses to defend slavery had run out, and by the 1860s it was time to make this choice:

For chattel slavery?
Or against it?

Robert E Lee decided in the 1860s that chattel slavery was worth committing treason and killing American soldiers over
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Geeko Sportivo said:
Here Earl!

Here is a statue of your president! Hope it makes you feel better!

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Irish said:
Well we no longer teach History or Civics in most schools. Leftists edit Wikipedia to their liking and alter digital history. Big tech companies are starting to invent ways to silence any decent. Book burning will be next.

This is just a start.
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Please identify the colleges and high schools which no longer teach about the civil war.
 
anatta said:
legit question.
it exposes the person ( usuallyin their glory) to the masses, or in some cases memorializes a particular event.

I dont know about you, but I lived in Maryland as a kid, ( a civil war buffer state)
and there were battlefields all around.

I got interested in the battles, and then wanted to know about the men as a measure to understand that chaotic time
the men ( and few women) drove the events with even their personalities at time..it like a public biography for those interested
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So, you needed a statue to inspire that. None of countless movies, classes, books, etc. gave you the impetus to research further. Got it.

Did you know that a lot of the confederate statues were erected after the war, by those whose intent was to still find some way to assert white supremacy?

True story. Statues aren't teaching devices. Read a book. Take a class, Go online.
 
BartenderElite said:
So, you needed a statue to inspire that. None of countless movies, classes, books, etc. gave you the impetus to research further. Got it.

Did you know that a lot of the confederate statues were erected after the war, by those whose intent was to still find some way to assert white supremacy?

True story. Statues aren't teaching devices. Read a book. Take a class, Go online.
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no you don't "need it" it sparks interest as ive laid out
but look at your ignorance, as you jump to "white supremacy" as the reason for the monuments -such inexact claptrap
Slavery was an economic issue for the south; why it started and why it was fought for

Im familiar with the timeline, many were erected at 50 o r 25 year anniverasary increments
 
anatta said:
no you don't "need it" it sparks interest as ive laid out
but look at your ignorance, as you jump to "white supremacy" as the reason for the monuments -such inexact claptrap
Slavery was an economic issue for the south; why it started and why it was fought for

Im familiar with the timeline, many were erected at 50 o r 25 year anniverasary increments
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Wowzers - did you just justify fighting for slavery, very casually?

And you need to read up on some more history. Not all of the statues - but some were definitely put up by sore losers who still needed to assert white supremacy.

No wonder you're fighting so hard over this. Very telling post, anatta.
 
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