GTFO here, the removal of statues put up to incense the civil rights movement is not in any way shape or form anywhere near to destruction of the biggest collection of knowledge of the ancient world
Point is the president shouldn't be out there exalting Hitler's oratory skills or the positives of a treacherous general. Or you can, just don't be a hypocrite when Bernie points out Castro's literacy program or China's economic miracle.
Certainly President Lincoln thought he was or had the potential to be the greatest general. After all, he offered Lee the command of the Union Army before Lee took command of the confederate army. Interesting world. Lee did fuck up bigtime at Gettysburg though by sending his men into slaughter at Pickett;s Charge/Cemetery Ridge. Bad day for sure. His men stuck up for him though. Even though General Meade was part of implementing Lee's plan and his men were slaughtered, when General Meade was asked later what went wrong at Cemetery Hill he just said "I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it." Heh, funny dat. Just as an aside, Robert E. Lee's father was a great general too. Lighthorse Harry. One of Washington's generals.
This is SPLC propaganda. The statues existed long before the civil rights movement. The ones in question were made between 1890-1940. They are history. They belong in a museum. Destruction of history should be a crime. Are we going to destroy museums because it hurts peoples fee-fees now too?
Oh, so the SPLC can't have redeeming qualities like Hitler did? Your hypocrisy is showing https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/5442...e-built-to-further-a-white-supremacist-future
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials Learn to read. On this. I'm not a hypocrite. Even though I despise the Chinese government I'd be remiss if I didn't at least recognize the brutal effectiveness of Mao's China. No different than Castro's literacy programs. Like I said above it's about optics and on that you're correct. It's easier to not say these things than to try to have a nuanced conversation with troglodytes.
Lee is so fucking overrated.Lee planned to win battles,Grant planned to win the war. Lee won defensive battles and lost offensive ones,Grant won them both. Grant captured three fucking armies,including Lees.Lee captured no opposing armies.Grant killed more enemy troops than his was killed.Grant coordinated his battles far better than Lees dumb ass did.Grant learned from his mistakes,Lee didn't. Grant captured twice as many enemy troops than Lee did and of course Grant won the fucking war.