I stand by what I wrote. Not your attempts to twist my words. I don't know or care about any alleged cult or what they are alleged to have done or attempted to do.
I know you don't. You choose to remain ignorant, which is why it's lucky I'm here to fix that. For too many decades too many other people also chose to remain ignorant too.
Oh by the way there are copious records of what they did. It's not "alleged".
I wrote that the history books were written in the North and may tend to reflect Northern opinion rather than historical fact. At least that's what the Daughters of the Confederacy seemed to think and that histories should convey truth rather than fiction. And they attempted to avoid that where possible.
"History books were written in the North"? WTF does that mean? Are the contents a history book somehow determined by "where it's written"?? History is history, PERIOD. Doesn't matter where it's written. And again -- read this reeeeallll sllllooowww so it kicks in --- HISTORY IS NOT OPINION; IT IS FACT.
History books are written, wherever they're written, and offered for sale to schools. The *LOCAL* school boards, which is where the UDC comes in, decide which ones they will use. What the UDC did was to CLOUD that history under a haze of BULLSHIT about "happy slaves" and "noble causes" for a cause that was anything but.
Your video contained no evidence to the contrary.
My video LITERALLY BEGINS with that evidence. It is LITERALLY the first thing that plays, that is, assuming you actually play the video. You didn't, or YOU WOULD KNOW THAT.
Where exactly is it stated or implied that you have the option of deciding that a monument or other symbol commemorates or honors whatever you choose to imagine it does?
On the monument itself. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT.
For instance the obelisk monument to the "Battle of Liberty Place" cited earlier originally read:
McEnery and Penn having been elected governor and lieutenant-governor by the white people, were duly installed by this overthrow of carpetbag government, ousting the usurpers, Governor Kellogg (white) and Lieutenant-Governor Antoine (colored). United States troops took over the state government and reinstated the usurpers but the national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South and gave us our state.
That's a reference to the Presidential election of 1876 where Hayes was installed by Congress on the condition that federal troops would be removed from the former Confederacy, thus allowing white supremacy.
In 1974 an additional inscription was added:
Although the "battle of Liberty Place" and this monument are important parts of the New Orleans history, the sentiments in favor of white supremacy expressed thereon are contrary to the philosophy and beliefs of present-day New Orleans.
This of course is the blowback from the original intent, already demonstrating how the message had not aged well. Around this time the city moved the obelisk from its prominent perch at the foot of Canal Street for "construction", and a local sued the city to put it back there.
Know who that local was?
David Duke.
If a statue depicts a soldier how does that promote or honor slavery?
It doesn't, nor did anyone suggest it does. This is the price of your failure to pay attention while you swim in the soup of ignorance.
Monuments are placed in public places because the public (the community) think they belong there
Nope. NO community ever asked "we can haz propaganda transmitters?". It was the UDC (mostly) that foisted them on people, and the point you keep ignoring is that they DELIBERATELY put them in places where they couldn't be ignored simply by general passers-by (NOT museum patrons who sought them out) and especially couldn't be ignored by the people targeted by their message, i.e. the black people riding the streetcar along Canal Street; the drivers going from point A to point B that connect via Lee Circle, and so on.
Pictures of Presidents are impressed into coins. Does that make them "propaganda transmitters"?
In a way. It's an honorific, isn't it.
Does that mean we are morally obligated to deface all such coins no matter where they are found or who owns them?
Ignorami will go to great lengths, even stupid questions like this, to avoid getting anywhere near the truth.
No I am, and have, said that what is stated in the articles of secession is irrelevant to why the war was fought for the Confederacy, for the various States, and most certainly for the individuals who fought it.
So you confirm that you're purporting to speak for the Confederate states as to what their motivations were, even if it contradicts what THEY THEMSELVES WROTE.
Think about how fucked up that position is.