Why is VA trying to take down a General Lee statue to begin with?

Historically, Lee was a fairly complicated character and I somehow suspect many of the monument protestors aren't all that familiar with it.

If it wasn't for Lee, the Civil War could have devolved into guerrilla warfare and dragged on for decades longer---or we could still be fighting it. Let that thought sink in.

So making Robert E. Lee=slavery is pretty simplistic. Dumb, even.

Lee = the cause he chose to fight for. And he equals treason.
 
Absolutist.

"Slavery was bad, and those who fought for it shouldn't be honored."

That, apparently, is now absolutist. Trump's America.

Slavery is bad so anyone who owned them shouldn't be honored.

Get busy with Jeffersons monument...they tell me it's pretty heavy lol.

Where does it end, Thingy?
 
Slavery is bad so anyone who owned them shouldn't be honored.

Get busy with Jeffersons monument...they tell me it's pretty heavy lol.

Where does it end, Thingy?

Treason is bad, and America's traitors shouldn't be honored. No monuments to Arnold, Lee, the Rosenburgs, Hanoi Jane, or John Walker Lindh.
 
Sure, there isn't. That the icons represent a despicable philosophy has nothing to do with it.

As if it is even possible to erase history in the first place. Absurd.
If not to erase history, what is the purpose of tearing down statues and removing names?

A few Confederate statues didn't cause the murder rates, blacks rioting and burning down neighborhoods, crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, etc.

But do remember when you erase history, out goes that trusty woe-is-me victim card. Would love to see that gone.
 
If not to erase history, what is the purpose of tearing down statues and removing names?

A few Confederate statues didn't cause the murder rates, blacks rioting and burning down neighborhoods, crumbling infrastructure, failing schools, etc.

But do remember when you erase history, out goes that trusty woe-is-me victim card. Would love to see that gone.

Asked and answered.

Thecstatues have nothing to do with the problems of the inner city.

Erase history? lol
 
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