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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
So you're in favour of getting rid of all trace of Robert E Lee? Do you support the renaming of Washington and Lee University, the bulldozing of the ancestral Lee house you can visit at the Arlington cemetery? Where are you going to stop?
Also I really don't see how you can apply your logic of applying the morality of the times to Lee and not to the founding fathers, they all had the power to stamp out the civil war before it could fester, they wrote the phrase " all men are created equal " and did basically nothing to apply that to all men.
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Here's 2 questions that will maybe lead you to rethink your position.
1. When was the Robert E Lee statue (and most Confederate monuments in the US) erected?
2. Why was it erected?
The answer to 1 is not after the war. There were two major periods the vast majority of these monuments were erected. The Klan resurgence in the years near the end of the first world war coincided with a huge surge in Confederate monuments including the one in question. It was a time of great racial tension. The second time there was a large surge in these monuments being erected was in the sixties.
2. They were not monuments to these men, but rather a way to remind people of the fight against equality of negros. It was openly stated at the time. The idea that these were too celebrate history is absurd.
Edit: to more accurately attribute my argument