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New congressional resolution introduced to remove Lee statue from Antietam

apdst said:
Libraries have banned Huck Finn, so anything is possible.

Sounds like you're all for closing battlefield parks and museums that reference the Civil War. Right?
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No.

Not many northern descendants want to forget the south's fight for a slave economy and we know the south's descendants revel in it.

We have over 150 battlefields, but most can avoid them if they want. But it's hard to avoid a statute of a southern leader in the town square...
 
maxparrish said:
If one is to reject the glorification of traitors in America, then one ought to reject the glorification of the traitors of British North America - or is this a criteria of whose ox is gored?
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"ONE" can never tell. (especially from that over pompous line of ****)
 
apdst said:
Even if it means erasing history?
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No one is advocating erasing history.

Good people, simply do not want to glorify, or celebrate the ugly stain of slavery in the US, and those that fought to protect it.

We absolutely need to remember, to ensure it never happens again.

Maybe we could erect a building, and these historical events on display, and learn from our mistakes.

I wonder what we could call such a place?
 
SoCal said:
No.

Not many northern descendants want to forget the south's fight for a slave economy and we know the south's descendants revel in it.

We have over 150 battlefields, but most can avoid them if they want. But it's hard to avoid a statute of a southern leader in the town square...
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The statue referred to in the OP is on a battlefield park.
 
Cardinal said:
I've never visited a statue of Pol Pot either, yet somehow I know about the Khmer Rouge. I guess my wealth of knowledge could be increased substantially by starting up at a statue of him.
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I bet you visited the statue of Lenin in Seattle.
 
Irwin Corey said:
Duh! What led up to and caused the succession; more to it than slavery.
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There was more to secession than just slavery. You're correct.

However, no secession would have meant no war.
 
apdst said:
The war was caused by secession.
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Wow, look at the breadth of knowledge that looking at statues has given you!
 
apdst said:
It's where you pay hommage to your hero.
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I'm wondering which statue you had to fall onto in order to learn about gravity.
 
apdst said:
Libraries have banned Huck Finn, so anything is possible.

Sounds like you're all for closing battlefield parks and museums that reference the Civil War. Right?
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I know right?

All those modern liberals banning books. What's next?


In 1885, Concord Public Library banned the book, attacking the novel as "absolutely immoral in its tone.” One library official noted that "all through its pages there is a systematic use of bad grammar and an employment of inelegant expressions.”
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Mark Twain, for his part, loved the controversy for the publicity it would generate. As he wrote to Charles Webster on March 18, 1885: "The Committee of the Public Library of Concord, Mass., have given us a rattling tip-top puff which will go into every paper in the country. They have expelled Huck from their library as 'trash and suitable only for the slums.' That will sell 25,000 copies for us sure."

In 1902, the Brooklyn Public Library banned The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with the statement that "Huck not only itched but he scratched," and that he said "sweat" when he should have said "perspiration."
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Why The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Has Been Banned
 
apdst said:
There was more to secession than just slavery. You're correct.

However, no secession would have meant no war.
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OK genius; I surrender! :2wave:
 
apdst said:
The statue referred to in the OP is on a battlefield park.
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Thanks for the correction, you prompted a reassessment. After more consideration, I believe they should all be removed from all public spaces. Let the south's pride in their forefathers be expressed by statutes on only public battlefields. For example...

"Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park preserves and interprets the Battle of Cedar Creek, a decisive October 19, 1864 Union victory...

...Although there are over 3,700 acres within the park's authorized boundary, over half of this is still privately owned. Therefore, much of the battlefield is not accessible to the public..."
 
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