Hegseth defends returning Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery

[rightwinger]

Nah. This statue in Arlington espouses the lost cause ideology, indicating they never admitted they were wrong.

The statue supports the Lost Cause and honors slaves who were obedient to their masters

 

[martybegan]

The racists have been rewriting the history of the Civil War since it ended. This monument is but one example of that.

Only the Liberty Square monument applies to your accusation.

 

[AntonToo]

MAGA is in charge and is renaming bases and putting statues back up.

Why do you want Confederate statutes?

Is it so important to glorify traitors who got millions of people killed for the cause of salve ownership?

 

[rightwinger]

MAGA is in charge and is renaming bases and putting statues back up.

Your shit talk is just shit talk. YOUR side is losing. We are remaking this country in our image, shit talk boi.

MAGA, as usual, is on the wrong side of history

Honoring the Confederacy in this day and age is reprehensible

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Why do you want Confederate statutes?

Is it so important to glorify traitors who got millions of people killed for the cause of salve ownership?

Nowhere near millions were killed in the Civil War

 

[AntonToo]

Nowhere near millions were killed in the Civil War

I stand corrected, it was only hundreds of thousands Americans killed.

 

[Marener]

Trump has the same problem you guys do.

Apparently it's not actually a very big problem given you've never bothered to criticize him for it.

You just criticize those who call chattel slavery evil.

Which, uh, yeah. Says something about you.

 

[DonGlock26]

A monument to reconciliation was never a bad thing.

 

[Marener]

Only the Liberty Square monument applies to your accusation.

Why even comment if you'll just ignore what is actually on the monument?

Your wilful ignorance is pathetic.

 

[martybegan]

Why do you want Confederate statutes?

Is it so important to glorify traitors who got millions of people killed for the cause of salve ownership?

We don't want new ones, we want the old ones put back before they were torn down or removed under the cover of night.

Don't forget the Teddy Roosevelt statue that was removed in NY, or the other non-civil war ones removed or defaced.

Hell they vandalized a memorial to the 54th Mass regiment.

 

[martybegan]

Why even comment if you'll just ignore what is actually on the monument?

Your wilful ignorance is pathetic.

Your dogmatic ignorance of history and reality is sad.

 

[rightwinger]

We don't want new ones, we want the old ones put back before they were torn down or removed under the cover of night.

Don't forget the Teddy Roosevelt statue that was removed in NY, or the other non-civil war ones removed or defaced.

Hell they vandalized a memorial to the 54th Mass regiment.

Again insisting on honoring an evil empire

 

[martybegan]

Apparently it's not actually a very big problem given you've never bothered to criticize him for it.

You just criticize those who call chattel slavery evil.

Which, uh, yeah. Says something about you.

Why do I have to criticize him for one small thing like this?

I think we overuse the word evil for things that were wrong.

 

[martybegan]

Again insisting on honoring an evil empire

They weren't an empire, they were an unrecognized Constitutional Republic.

 

[Marener]

Your dogmatic ignorance of history and reality is sad.

Downplaying the inhumanity or importance of slavery is ignorant of history.

Again, the Lost Cause narrative is rewriting history. That's what this statue is about. There's no healing on the statue.

 

[Marener]

Why do I have to criticize him for one small thing like this?

I think we overuse the word evil for things that were wrong.

You find time to criticize everyone else about it. You won't criticize him because he's your daddy.

 

[rightwinger]

They weren't an empire, they were an unrecognized Constitutional Republic.

Yes they were
They had control over their population

A nation built on ensuring slavery lasts forever
A nation where 40 percent of the population was enslaved

 

[Mac-7]

Using the National Guard, 100 years later.

You forgot to mention it.

In only two

And 65 years later the Guard is being called out again to quell resistance and lawbreaking, this time by libs

 

[martybegan]

Downplaying the inhumanity or importance of slavery is ignorant of history.

Again, the Lost Cause narrative is rewriting history. That's what this statue is about. There's no healing on the statue.

Actually we should worry more about the current sex slavery seen here amongst the illegals, and still seen in 3rd world countries.

There is no revison with the "lost cause", they still admit they lost.

 

[whoisit]

***** shit…let’s stop ******* around and reinstall ALL Robert E. Lee statues

Don't worry Robert E Lee is carved into the largest rock on earth, which 2/3s of it is underground.
They said the only way to remove such a giant carving would be a nuclear bomb.
Education and history may help rid of all the hate ,since what blacks and others did to their own long before America existed is much worse.
While those of us who built this nation divide and fight, other's are coming across the border and taking over.