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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
It's the same debate. You don't need to have the flags or statues to remember the history. Memorials that don't honour people who fought to keep slavery alive aren't complicated to make. The problem is there is a large portion of the population that idolize these historic figures and promote what they did to gain support for pushing an agenda of bigotry, racism and hatred.
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It's different though because people are more complicated than symbols. There's nothing ambiguous about the Confederate battle flag and what it stood for.
There's at least a reason the legacy of Lee is slightly more mixed, there'd be a lot less controversey if this was a statue of Jefferson Davis or Nathan Bedford Forrest.