Should Confederate War Memorials/Statues Be Abolished?

Elected officials made the decision, i don't hear a majority making a beef about removing them or saying they will vote out those that had them removed. Democracy is wonderful.

Again, you should be directed your ire at your local school board for the piss poor job of educating kids in your district. that is the real tragedy here.

 

This is why Nikki Haley must never be president. She tried to make it legitimate to disrespect the sacrifice and heroism of our ancestors.

 

Typical republican.Evil devils who fought to keep black people as slaves are heros to them.

 

I grew up in Texas, teaching civil war history is considered embarrassing. I disagree, but the Germans seem to skip that part of their history too.

 

Well I am in Virginia near the capital of the Confederacy so makes no sense why they have no problem teacing it here. I am pretty sure Civil War is part of all curriculums, just differs on what age they introduce it.

 

Once again (can't believe I have to keep saying it over and over) it isn't that Civil War history has been removed from the face of the planet. My point was that it starts with the statues and monuments and ultimately ends with the erasure of the entire event, because people get triggered and offended by more and more (or it takes less and less to trigger them). The natural progression is to keep banning more and more until nothing is left.

 

What would be a good example of that in the U.S.?
Has it ever happened?

 

Not sure I can give you an example of where, in the US, monument toppling and statue destruction led to a re-writing of history. But then again, we're just getting started. Doesn't mean we can't learn from other places in the world and their culture and history. Does anyone here think that the massive Islamic invasion of Europe won't have an effect on their history?

I'm sure our history has been "re-written" in some cases though. I doubt the American Indian would agree we tell their story all that well, for example. History is often written by the conqueror, right?

 

I was addressing your statement "The natural progression is to keep banning more and more until nothing is left" more generically. Where something that actually happened has been slowly erased in the name of PC.

 

How about All In the Family ? You see re-runs of that show anymore?