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PragerU: why Civil War was fought

Glitch said:
The Democratic Party is the party of bigots. There is no escaping that reality, as their history is riddled with examples right up to the present day.



Complete and utter BS. If blacks had a serious problem with memorials to traitors, why didn't they say or do something about it before June 2020? Because it wasn't an issue prior to them making it an issue in June 2020. Why didn't Obama remove the federal memorials to Confederate traitors while he was President? Because it wasn't an issue.

Once again, there are no protests, only criminal riots. Learn the difference. Protests are always lawful and peaceful. If it is anything else, then it is a riot.

Andrew Jackson was true scum, a mass murderer, and founder of the Democratic Party terrorist organization, but not a traitor to the US. I don't like him being on our currency or memorialized in statue form, but if others want to memorialize the bastard I have no valid objections. If they go around eliminating all the statues to the bigoted pricks then there would be no memorials to any Democrat ever.

I draw the line at traitors. When General Benedict Arnold committed treason we renamed Fort Arnold to Fort Clinton, and there are no memorials to the man anywhere in the US. The same should apply to all Confederates, and any other traitor to the US. This isn't about bigotry, this is about treason.

Furthermore, a Democrat-controlled Congress passed laws in 1929 and 1958 that designated all Confederate traitors as US veterans. So this very much is about the Democratic Party.
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I agree with much of that.

When protestors damage property (or other people) they're not protestors anymore, they are rioters. So yes that's my mistake, I used the wrong word there. Still, I don't think McConnell would have renamed a single Army base had it not been for the political pressure caused by rioters taking down statues.

Removal of Confederate monuments has been a goal for several decades, and typically becomes a larger focus after high-profile cases of apparent racism. So this recent surge in interest is not unusual, nor is it disingenuous. And as President, Obama didn't have the authority to order states to remove their statues and Confederate flags from public areas.

I agree that if all non-Confederate racist symbols come down then we won't have many left. Slippery slopes need a logical threshold and drawing the line at traitors makes a lot of sense to me. My vote would be to replace the most egregious of the remaining with people like Dred Scott, Homer Plessy, Linda/Oliver Brown, etc. And Give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to people like Jane Elliot or Daryl Davis.

Finally, I have no specific disagreement with your statements about Democrats of the past, but nor do I understand why they would be relevant to what I'm saying here. Regardless of who put them up decades ago, they're still up today and it's a disgrace that the people today would even need to petition the government to take them down (again), much less tear them down themselves since the government isn't listening.
 
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