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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
That's certainly a valid view point. To me though you could use the same arguments to wipe out any memorial to basically all the founding fathers
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That is not a valid argument.
At the time of the founding fathers, slavery was only starting to become questionable in a minority of society. The civil war started 85 years later. 85 years ago, we were in the throws of the great depression. Black people weren't allowed to vote and gay people weren't spoken of. Civil liberties were virtually non existent, nor were most safety laws etc.
Progress happens and it takes time. One cannot compare apples to oranges. One can only compare what is going on with what is going on at the time that it happens because societies change over time. It was increasingly becoming the minority opinion that slavery should continue when the war occurred. It was a small band of people trying to hold on to what was instead of moving in a different direction. The reticence to change has plagued that region since it's inception.