Originally Posted by
Bill Fishlore
The technique being used to defend Trump's rhetorical disaster about the statue of Lee's statue is a dishonest deflection of the reason for taking it down. The issue is not slavery, disgraceful as that is, but insurrection. The statues etc. being removed honor the Confederate States of America, an organization guilty of treason by insurrection, not the ownership of slaves. So it really is beside the point that Washington et al. were slave-owners, it is rebellion, not slavery that has brought Lee and other Confederate leaders into historical bad odor. Lincoln himself famously said at one point that if keeping slavery would preserve the Union, he would allow it.
It is hard to tell how many right wing posters fail to grasp the difference between slavery and the rebellion. The switch in topic is a good example of fake news.
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