1. From 1865 to 2017, America didn’t consider the South treasonous.
2. There is a monument to John Andre in Tappan, NY
3. The South had a right to leave an evolved system which they never signed up to.
4. Read Jefferson Davis’ Rise and Fall of the Confederacy.
5. Lincoln was a war mongering President who had no right attacking the Southern states and killing millions of Americans to “preserve the Union”. (Fort Sumter was a Northern provocation. They had no right being in that area.)
6. Some of the statues may have been a protest of desegregation in the 20th century. If that’s true knock those down.
7. Certain statues such as of Forrest (began the KKK in postbellum South) may actually be representing the evil of White Supremacism. If this is true knock them down.
8. Robert E Lee was always and still is considered at worst a great american personality and at best an American Hero. Some people don’t like the deification of the general, but there is no doubt that he represents more than just a slave owber fighting for his rights to own slaves. It would do well for us to remember that we had people like him in our history. (And sinve were on Yeshova World, based on the documents that we have, he was MUCH more tolerant to his Jewish soldiers than Union General Grant was. Making sure that they were able to take a break on Yom Tov if I remember correctly. Getting Matzah.)
9.and tgat is the point of these “protesters”. They want you to think that every remembrance of someone in history is trying to represent evil since naturally every single person living 100 years ago is in some way ot another less liberal than today. Does FDR represent anti Asian oppression?
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