Hegseth defends returning Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery

[JWBooth]

and enacted Jim Crow throughout the South

Allowing them to catch up with their northern neighbors in segregationist laws that predated the conflict.

 

[Mac-7]

You would be wrong.

YOur desire to forever hold your former foes in some sort of permanent group guilt,


is completely unAmerican and morally indefensible.

Modern libs are out of step with Abraham Lincoln

 

[Correll]

Modern libs are out of step with Abraham Lincoln

They just hate America so much.

They see the CIvil War, which could easily have led to America being permantly divided and thus weaker,

and they see it as a horribly missed opportunity, when America could have been morally wounded, and instead healed and went on to become stronger and stronger.


of course they hate that. And would love to undo it.

 

[Mac-7]

They just hate America so much.

They see the CIvil War, which could easily have led to America being permantly divided and thus weaker,

and they see it as a horribly missed opportunity, when America could have been morally wounded, and instead healed and went on to become stronger and stronger.


of course they hate that. And would love to undo it.

Libs are tragically miseducated to the point of being sucidial

We cant let them bring us down with them

 

[Correll]

Libs are tragically miseducated to the point of being sucidial

We cant let them bring us down with them

Amen to that brother.

 

[longly]

So you were mourning elderly dudes who survived the war? Jesus that’s stupid. Wanna bet how racist those “heroes” were?

We won. That means we get to tell them their cause wasn’t just. Because it wasn’t. That should be obvious even to hacks like you.

Do you want to guess how many Union soldiers were racist? Probably 99%. It was a very racist time.Do you think they fought the Confederacy because they were anti-racist?If they opposed slavery, it wasn’t necessarily out of moral opposition—it was often because they didn’t want to compete with slave labor.It’s called zeitgeist: understanding the mindset of the time.

 

[AntonToo]

The other leftard

You mean some other perrson who is not me, right?

How about you go talk to him instead of wasting my time?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Sure it was. YOu wouldn't talk like that, if any of them were still alive or in your face.

Uh, I sure would have, because like every swinging dick, I would have been there with a weapon in my hand.

Because we had to kill so many of the slaver traitors that their own masters finally gave up.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Modern libs are out of step with Abraham Lincoln

But the Republicans much more so

Go read Abraham Lincoln's speech about labor vs. capital. True leftist screed.

Lincoln would be branded a Commie by today's white wing noise machine, if they read those words without knowing the author.

 

[Correll]

But the Republicans much more so

Go read Abraham Lincoln's speech about labor vs. capital. True leftist screed.

Lincoln would be branded a Commie by today's white wing noise machine, if they read those words without knowing the author.

Don't care.

 

[EMH]

Hegseth defends returning Confederate monument removed by ‘woke lemmings’ to Arlington National Cemetery

The Reconciliation Monument was removed from Arlington National Cemetery in 2023.

www.al.com

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth backed up his decision to return a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery removed by “the woke lemmings” who have erased Confederate symbols from American culture.

The Reconciliation Monument, a memorial to the Confederacy, was removed from Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 2023.

Hegseth explained his decision to bring back the monument to Arlington during a Fox News appearance Thursday afternoon.

“Because we recognize our history, we don’t erase it. We don’t follow the woke lemmings off the cliff that want to tear down statues,” the secretary said.

Good. That's American history. Sadly the dems made it into a political/ethnic issue.

Whether you agree or disagree with the government in charge, the soldiers fought for their states.

Union or confederate they should be honored. And hopefully remembered so similar events won’t repeat themselves.

A Spanberger supporter and a Confederate masquerading as a "conservative" and a "Republican."


Supporting Confederate monuments isn't conservative, nor is supporting Israel more than America.

 

[Correll]

A Spanberger supporter and a Confederate masquerading as a "conservative" and a "Republican."


Supporting Confederate monuments isn't conservative, nor is supporting Israel more than America.

Sure it is. Both of them.

Confederate history is part of AMERICAN history and anyone that says otherwise is full of shit.

Israel? **** the muslims.

 

[toobfreak]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth backed up his decision to return a Confederate monument to Arlington National Cemetery removed by “the woke lemmings” who have erased Confederate symbols from American culture.

Good god, don't these lemmings realize that the statue is there to commemorate an historical event? It is not there to promote slavery or any confederate soldier.

If we erect a monument commemorating the Revolutionary war, that doesn't mean we are promoting killing the British now.

You cannot know where you are if you have no idea the path and steps you took to get there.

One might even argue that by remembering your past, it will help keep you from repeating any of its mistakes.

 

[rightwinger]

Plenty of Union soliders died in the fight to free them. Plenty lose arms or legs.

You ever die to free another man from slavery?

The war was fought over the South’s insistence on slavery.

Celebrating those who fought to maintain slavery while ignoring the slaves themselves is reprehensible

 

[rightwinger]

Good god, don't these lemmings realize that the statue is there to commemorate an historical event? It is not there to promote slavery or any confederate soldier.

If we erect a monument commemorating the Revolutionary war, that doesn't mean we are promoting killing the British now.

You cannot know where you are if you have no idea the path and steps you took to get there.

One might even argue that by remembering your past, it will help keep you from repeating any of its mistakes.

The monument celebrates those slaves who remained loyal to their masters

 

[rightwinger]

The Vietnam protests were much bigger and more violent than the reaction to the civil rights movement

More revisionist history from the right

 

[rightwinger]

Why the Confederacy was formed

Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science.

Cornerstone Speech - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[martybegan]

Good thing those “few” slaves got a memorial to their struggles to remain in bondage.

Because it’s not like the rest of slaves got any note on the memorial to the “heroes” that fought to keep them property.

This is really embarrassing. If you weren’t such a hack, you’d have given this up a long time ago because there’s clearly only one reason you’re going to theses lengths.

I defer to the people that beat them, and allowed them to mourn as they saw fit, because in the end the victors got what they wanted.

 

[martybegan]

Lost Cause sought to soften the image of the Confederacy and downplay the role slavery played
STATES RIGHTS!

They tried to portray slaves as happy with their condition

MAGA is embracing lost cause rhetoric and reinstalling offensive displays and honors to the Confederacy

And here comes the crux of the matter. the guilt by association attempt for things that happened over a century ago, to mask the true racism shown by the left.

 

[martybegan]

No. The ability to be legally rape/whipped to death after watching your children legally raped/whipped to death is kind of a disincentive.

Funny you bring that up when right now all the right is trying to do is restore law and order.