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JollyRoger · 70-79, M
I say: You've provoked some liberal non-thinkers with this!
My line: What is the purpose of living a human life (most of us here are doing that) if you erase all the errors and only keep the good parts (the ones that are CONVENIENT to remember? Would you also suggest the memorial to the Holocaust at Auschwitz also be destroyed? Those things, including pictures(statues) of the people who did wrong should be kept. Now... I'm not saying that these people need to be glorified, but: Why not describe what they did, how harmful it was and the politics behind their activity on a SEPARATE plaque so that future generations and visitors from foreign countries know the evil has been addressed and redressed. Out of sight, out of mind... not for glory, but for guidance to not repeat a horror.
My line: What is the purpose of living a human life (most of us here are doing that) if you erase all the errors and only keep the good parts (the ones that are CONVENIENT to remember? Would you also suggest the memorial to the Holocaust at Auschwitz also be destroyed? Those things, including pictures(statues) of the people who did wrong should be kept. Now... I'm not saying that these people need to be glorified, but: Why not describe what they did, how harmful it was and the politics behind their activity on a SEPARATE plaque so that future generations and visitors from foreign countries know the evil has been addressed and redressed. Out of sight, out of mind... not for glory, but for guidance to not repeat a horror.
JollyRoger · 70-79, M
@MalcolmY Then, why did the Confederacy come to rise? Do you think it was perhaps because the South was dependent on the North to buy it's produce and the North didn't want to fairly pay for it? Then throw the abolition of slavery on top of that and (if you put yourself in the South's shoes) you'd rebel too!
I'm citing from what I remember as a Canadian learning about American history.... am I wrong? Sure the Confederacy failed, but so did the British Army during the Boer War and the Crimean War, but nobody talks about those mis-adventures. Only the WINNERS write history - So, don't destroy the memory of what happened, just put it in its proper perspective.
I'm citing from what I remember as a Canadian learning about American history.... am I wrong? Sure the Confederacy failed, but so did the British Army during the Boer War and the Crimean War, but nobody talks about those mis-adventures. Only the WINNERS write history - So, don't destroy the memory of what happened, just put it in its proper perspective.
GERRI · 51-55, F
@JollyRoger We Americans, particularly those under 45 haven't a clue as to the true historical account of the Civil War and frankly neither did I until I homeschooled one of my sons for a good many years.
If these naive, ill-informed neophytes believe The Civil War was fought over the human and civil rights of slaves,then they are sadly mistaken.. It was fought to end slavocracy, that much is true. But it wasn't fought from the perspective of Civil Rights. at least mostly it wasn't.
If these naive, ill-informed neophytes believe The Civil War was fought over the human and civil rights of slaves,then they are sadly mistaken.. It was fought to end slavocracy, that much is true. But it wasn't fought from the perspective of Civil Rights. at least mostly it wasn't.
FlowersNButterflies · 61-69, FVIP
That is not how those statues are used or would ever be useful. @JollyRoger