How are those statues helping you remember the horrors of the slave states, when the statues falsely glorify scum like Lee and Jackson? Someone needs to commission a statue of Hitler fucking the statue of liberty and put it across the street from your family home. You gotta remember the good and the bad. Even though the statue is a ridiculous display glorifying an enemy of the US, you need to remember history.
Read your posts and tell me again how you aren't supporting white supremacy.
1. I never said nor suggested that someone build a statue of Hitler. The discussion was never about our modern society today building things. It was about tearing the old monuments down. People seem to be ripping down these statues with just as much hate as they say that these statues personify.
2. I am not the one that just made a comparison that one people being enslaved should be viewed differently than another. White, Black, Asian, Latino... a slave is still a slave. For you to say that you care about the condition of one group of slaves over another is bigotry in itself. You condemned one but not the other?
3. You don't care about other countries? If your location from your profile is accurate then you are in St. Petersburg, Russia. Are you an American citizen that is in Russia at the moment? Because if you "don't care about other countries" then why are you.
A. Living in another one right now an you are a US citizen.
Or
B. A non-US citizen outside of the US commenting on a country that they don't live in and they suddenly say they care about what the US has historically done but not others? That is laughable by the way.
Way to judge people over others... just like you say one group of slaves should be cared for more over another.
So if you have never lived in the US I find it hard for you to understand the context of what is going on beyond following the same "party line" as the people yelling to take these statues down.
And you are forgetting that they were not enemies to Americans.... they ARE Americans. They followed their home state more than the federal government. Even the Union citizens as well as confederates said they were from (insert home state here) instead of the Confederacy or Union. That is the context that you really are forgetting.
If you really think that a man is defined by one attribute then you are sorely mistaken. If you want to damn all of those that champion slavery fine condemn those actions but don't think that that was all that slave owners were about. Many of our founding fathers were slave owners but you don't see anyone taking those monuments down now do you? Why not take them down as well?It is because we all know that people are much more complicated than that.
