Shoudn't Confederate soldiers fighting to keep slavery be offensive to all Americans? It is history to be studied, not a movement to have monuments built to celebrate.
Please post where the celebrations for these monuments are. I always seem to miss the good parties. A monument isn't always a celebration. The Alamo, for example, probably isn't celebrated or appreciated by American Indians. Yet there it is, a lesson in history.
Also as I indicated which you gloss over, the Civil War is NOT being erased, it is taught in all the schools, its battlegrounds are heavily visited tourist cites, plenty of museums tell the story. You are mistating the facts.
I am misstating facts? Where? You say it is taught in "all the schools". Are you sure about that? Because so far, as of this point, my son hasn't learned about the Civil war, and he is going into the 6th grade. I learned it well before that. Are you sure it is taught in "all the schools"? I didn't bring this up before because I didn't think it was a discussion we should go back and forth on. But since you are accusing me of glossing over it, I see we now have to have an argument on every fucking pedantic point no matter how trivial. I can do that with you from now on, since you insist.
Your argument that we are removing history conveniently overlooks the large amount of history that is already preserved.
No it doesn't. I specifically mention the slippery slope where I
feel this leads to in several posts. You don't have to agree with my perspective. I honestly don't give a shit. It's still my perspective and you can kindly piss off if you don't like it. I'm not overlooking the large amount of history already preserved - just the amount that is under attack.
If you can only learn about the Civil War from a statute of a confederate soldier in a park square then the education system has failed you.
Where did I say you can only learn about the Civil War from a statue? All I said - which I will again repeat - is that these statues you find offensive are a part of our history. I find certain statues offensive as well. I find many things the Left says and does offensive but I defend their right to say and do those things (so long as it does not affect another person). That's called the Freedom of Expression. If someone wants to fly a confederate flag over their house, who are you to enforce
your values on them? Other people value different things and view different statues, monuments, in different ways. Because you feel upset and triggered from them, everyone has to have them removed.
Eventually, even the things you support will become "illegal" to someone wanting them down or removed, simply because they feel threatened or offended. When that day comes when everything is offensive to everyone and nothing can be put out, you can look back and thank yourself for being part of this "progressive" movement of "tolerance".
