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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
A great many Southerners do not believe those statues stand for slavery. They believe those statues stand for Southern pride, especially the pride in how valiantly they fought a terrible war against a more powerful enemy.
They're deluded that the generals weren't fighting to maintain slavery. But that delusion is genuine.
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And delusions can be addressed and erased if there's a high enough priority placed on doing so.
Germany had Nazism burned out of its soul, deliberately, by German policy makers and civil society. They confronted their immediate past and, for the most part, have accepted the shame, guilt, and solemnity of that era.
This is an act in a similar vein and an act that's 150 years overdue. Imagine if the South was forced to accept that slavery was bad from decades long policies of reconciliation and acceptance like in Germany where we would be today?