A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday.
The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the Pentagon suspend efforts to dismantle and remove the monument from Arlington cemetery.
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Does removing a monument also erase history books somehow?
No, just republicans erase books currently
How is a monument put up in 1914 a trace of history?
Unless you mean the history of racists who praised the Confederacy but were never a part of it.
Simply replace it with a memorial for the enslaved folks these losers fought to subjugate. Let the Confederate legacy be lost to time and honor the people who persevered through unimaginable evils.
Where are all the monuments to Hitler in Germany?
Sadly, there’s probably a huge overlap between the people for keeping that monument and people that wouldn’t be opposed to installing Nazi monuments
Fair enough- when are they going to put up the memorial to Osama Bin Laden in Times Square?
The folks itching to repeat it are the same folks who have hooked their “heritage” on a traitorous nation that lasted less time than some of my underwear and socks.
I don’t think removing these monuments to traitors from US soil is going to make much of a difference to them.
Also - monuments aren’t history books, and the folks trying to get sensitive events out of history books are also the same group of people trying to keep the monuments to traitors in place.
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Grew up in a similar bubble, I get it.
Books and museums about the Civil War literally still exist.
Lol we don’t reward losers
We don’t want to celebrate wrongdoers with memorials.
There’s a reason why you don’t see statues of Hitler in Germany. That doesn’t mean he’s not part of their history or that they are not trying to learn from the mistakes.
Honoring racist pieces of shit just makes more people racist pieces of shit.
Most of the Confederate monuments were put up by the KKK in the early 20th century as an intimidation tactic.