That’s the point. It’s critical to understand that slavery was a worldwide issue. We cannot just look at this from an American perspective. The confederates and even folks before them in the United States that own slaves were men of their time. Of course, most folks were hard-working people many of them poor they didn’t have any slaves.
When assessing the honoring of traitors and the erection of statutes to lionize them in America, we can
absolutely look at the American perspective. How the Confederates were traitors and betrayers to a man. How they murdered tens of thousands of American soldiers. And how they did this in the bloody defense of evil and the most vile tyranny our nation has ever known.
You've yet to explain to me why we
wouldn't tear down monuments to honor traitors, who murdered our own to keep people as property.
I can't think of a single reason either.
This is about mutual respect. Organizations like Black Lives Matter and the far left do not engage in mutual respect or common sense or any kind of a legitimate understanding of history. They want to steal power, they want to steal money and loot businesses like they did in the BLM riots and say that “it is a form of reparations”. They want reparations for slavery from hundreds of years ago, which is absurd because white people were also slaves in Africa. We all come from slaves. Let’s just have a meritocracy and respect each other. I respect all people whether black or Jewish you name it . So everyone should be respected equally based on their race and ethnicity
How much respect do traitors, killers and enslavers deserve?
We don't have statutes to black slave owners either. Why would the white ones get a pass?
I believe blm/ white privilege was a part of a psychological operation if not that then just a total misunderstanding of history, or trying to live up to some kind of a moral standard that makes no sense. The whole idea being that we should feel bad for a Black people that Black people should feel bad for themselves. White people should feel bad for themselves. Whites should feel bad for some idea that their ancestors owned slaves when many of them actually didn’t own slaves, and in fact, every white person has an ancestor that was a slave.
It all comes down to the first place one cannot criticize Americans of history simply for owning slaves. Because that is ignorant of history this was a common practice of the time all over the world. Now, on the other hand when you look at the Nazi holocaust that was not a common practice in the 1940s, the attempted elimination of all Jews of the world only stopped by the Brave Soviets, Americans, Chinese, British and other allies.
I can absolutely condemn America's practice of slavery. And I can absolutely condemn the Confederates
Slavery is objectively evil. It is the most vile tyranny ever perpetrated by our nation, predicated on the profound violations of every right, freedom and principle our nation holds dear (in theory). And the confederacy murdered American soldiers to preserve the POWER of the State to strip PEOPLE of every right so they could be subject to systematic torture, rape and mutilation over their lifetimes and enslaved for generations.
There's no polish you can put on that turd. And no honor that defenders of such evil are ever due. They only thing that they are due is our memory of their evil, and our condemnation of them and the slaughter they perpetrated.
We should never forget the confederacy and their evil. And we should never forgive nor honor them for their murders, mutilations, torture and enslavement. The confederacy is forever a stain on our nation's history and character.
And fuck any statues honoring them.