No, I caught that you denied it, but I was unable to understand what you based your claim on, AND that question is even more pointed, now that you have admitted to knowing about the Blue and Gray Reunion(s).
So, how do you deny my point about the nation as a whole, accepting the South's celebration of their confederate past?
And why?
Again, I laid all that out (the question of the nation "accepting" the Lost Cause revisionism) back in post 337. You dismissed it. I referred back to it again, you dismissed it again. Then I re-copied the whole thing and you dismissed it a third time.
What's the point going on with this game?
I do know about the Blue and Grey Reunion thingy but I was referring to the place, since you asked "where that picture is from". Gettysburg is a small town, it should be a quick trip through but can be a pain in the ass to drive through due to tourist traffic. I can't for the life of me figure out why anyone goes to a battle that is known to have ended a century and a half ago. What do they expect to see? Ghosts? That shit should be buried and forgotten. Or paved over for a mall, whatever. Glorifying war has never worked in any constructive way. That a battle took place on some spot ought to be an obscure arcane bit of trivia. Maybe a single marker and that's it, not an exploitation industry.
I didn't dismiss it. I pointed out that it was a series of events that you could not just assume were related in some fashion.
Meanwhile I have the historical record of a national policy of reconciliation, that we see enacted in the history books and played out if the healing of the wounds of the war and generations of unity and respect for each others cultures and heritage, under the larger shared American culture.
THat photos is from a massive joint Union/Confederate Army reunion, where the soldiers of the South, that you people want to treat as though they were still hated traitors, were treated as fellow Americans united by their history of service,
BY THE VERY PEOPLE THAT FOUGHT THEM.
SO, I repeat my question. How do you deny that America has accepted this as a whole, for the last 5 generations?
Once again --- you're trying to counter arguments that I did not make.
It's not, and never has been, my position that Confederates were "hated traitors" or that the South is "hated" or whatever. Hell, that's my own family and current residence you're talking about.
RATHER, my position is that
the UDC and Lost Cause Cult is a dishonest historical revision and needs to be called out AS a dishonest historical revision. That's what I've been laying down all along.
That litany of misery I spelled out in 337 is a result and co-conspirator NOT of "Confederates" or of "Southerners" but of that very revisionism noted directly above. It's intentionally deceitful propaganda and it needs to go yesterday. Unfortunately yesterday has passed, so we act today. And by "we" I mean the various communities that had that propaganda laid on them that they never asked for.
The UDC specifically, it's worth noting, derived from the old money class, in other words the same 'indolent plantter class' that incited the War in the first place. That's got a lot to do with why they tried to whitewash it. I see the "War between the States" as very much a "war within the Confederacy" and I've continued to point that out as well, that is, a class war. An age-old story of the Haves sending the Have Nots to do their dirty work. That's a story that needs to be told as well.