Date: May 08, 2022
“Supporters of the “Mt. Rushmore of the Confederacy” square off with activists”
I don’t know about you…but I really hate seeing people act this way…and the aggressive intolerance towards monuments…the bad will conflating of separate, nuanced issues…
…Of course…I’ve never supported slavery, racism or the KKK…and at the same time, I find it repugnant, that people would have the gall to treat a confederate memorial like this.
It truly is disgusting and disgraceful…There’s no sense in it.
So many people who ended up serving, dying or getting wounded in that war, really didn’t have much of a choice…like all wars…many people find themselves there for reasons other than supporting some end political goal.
The leaders may be more culpable, yes…but we still do not erase the defeated, nor our enemies…They are part of our shared history…They were nuanced and complicated people, living in their time, in a culture which created them.
It’s stupid to act like they never existed.
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