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Like it was said earlier should've been destroyed long ago. Only ones offended are ignorant racist people and white supremacist and those who think The SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN dumb dumbs. Basically the People who call themselves Patriots but really are just traitors to the country.
You just pointed to the Boston Tea Party. Yes what happened helped get the taxation off. People were not listening to just protesting so you sometimes have to go one step further. You need to get people out of their comfort zones and feeling uncomfortable and even inconvenience them to make them listen.
Always love this rhetoric from ignorant and racist people when it comes to what the Civil War was fought over. Always some Constitutionalist or some idiots who says the Dems created the KKK. Yes but both parties have switched and done multiple things since then saying that has zero meaning today.
A generalization really shows your ignorance. Maybe understanding different perspectives might open up your mind and eyes. There’s always room for development. Please keep an open mind here...
He was protecting his state rights which was very common then. It’s a piece of history that we can learn from. Without history, we can’t learn from our mistakes. Let’s move it to another location.
I do have an open mind. My mind is it should be written down these people were traitors to their countries and racists and shouldn't be momuntized or whatever the word is. I myself am a history guy and these statues have zero reason to be standing. Only ones that should be are the ones on historical sites and battlefields. Anything else should be destroyed. Military bases with their names the names should be removed. Again like I said thats like calling the White House The Benedict Arnold House. Makes zero sense
Bull#### State Rights is just a cop out for they wanted to own slaves and I agree with them. It was not about state rights. You can yell it till you're blue in the face but lets not play revisionist history here. They couldn't play with others so they took their balls and went home.
Can you explain why they dropped every demand except slavery?
Riddle me this Batman, besides being documented that it was states right, why was the vast majority of the confederate army fighting to keep slavery when it didn’t even benefit them?
Scores of historians have volumes of evidence that succession and Civil War was fought to preserve the slave economy in the South. Do those “older” books you reference still call it “The War of Northern Aggression?”
You are kidding me right? Slavery benefited the south the most over the north. Lets not try revisionist history. It's becoming pretty accurate and blatant why created this thread and it was to whine about your little traitor statues being torn down. Wooo is me. Cry me a river.
Because some people are stupid. They tried to destroy a CHurchhill Statue and call him racist too. But this isn't about those statues now is this? This is about your precious traitor statues
I believe he's referring to most Southerners weren't rich enough to own slaves. Why fight a rich man's war? Propaganda is my answer.
In order tp preserve the "right" to keep slaves you have to dehumanize them. The rich and powerful had a tight hand on the newpapers and spread fear among people regarding what would happen if slaves rebelled or were free and how Yankee influence would ruin their lives. A trickle down theory was that slavery benefitted everyone because it kept the economy going. Southern whites had the ambition of becoming slave holders in order to make things easier for their families at home and to become wealthy.
FYI - I’ve lived in ct all my life. I care about historical value and as proven over the Shaw monument, people are indiscriminately destroying historical pieces.
The South itself called bullspit on this in 1864...
