No amount of whitewashing is going to fix that. Almost half of them in-fact celebrate it.

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    5 months ago

    The cultural context was that it was put in the cemetery by butthurt Southerners over 50 years after the war.

    Like all of these other “my heritage!!!” monuments that were put up in the 20th century.

    It belongs in a history museum as much as a statue of Hitler some Neo-Nazi carved today belongs in one.