God I hope they tear it down the same night it goes back up.
NC Board of governor Thom Goolsby tweeted that the statue is going back up within 90 days. He used he hashtag “#hatecrime” to illustrate his dumb position on the topic. These people have no shame.
Never been to the National Vietnam Veterans memorial. Is it celebrating the Vietcong or the NVA?
Glad to see others beat me to it.
My favorite part whenever arguments about Confederate statues and memorials comes up is the inevitable claim from those who support keeping them that, if we take them down, somehow we'll all forget about the Civil War and "lose our history". As if all those books and documentaries and battlefield parks like Gettysburg and Shiloh are also going to disappear. LOL.
It is honoring people from America who died in a war that totaled over 3 million deaths, which most agree America perpetuated for, at best, no real legitimate reason and, at worst, poor reasons. Most of both North and South Vietnam did not want us there and viewed us as no better than we would view slaveholders.
The confederate monuments are honoring people who died in a war that killed 620,000 people from America in a war that most now view the South as having poor reasons for fighting.
If the theory is that the monuments honor the dead foot soldiers carrying out their duties who were survived by American friends and relatives wanting to honor them, then both serve the same purpose. If the theory is that the monuments validate the political motives for the war itself, then neither of them are worthwhile.
It is honoring people from America who died in a war that totaled over 3 million deaths, which most agree America perpetuated for, at best, no real legitimate reason and, at worst, poor reasons. Most of both North and South Vietnam did not want us there and viewed us as no better than we would view slaveholders.
The confederate monuments are honoring people who died in a war that killed 620,000 people from America in a war that most now view the South as having poor reasons for fighting.
If the theory is that the monuments honor the dead foot soldiers carrying out their duties who were survived by American friends and relatives wanting to honor them, then both serve the same purpose. If the theory is that the monuments validate the political motives for the war itself, then neither of them are worthwhile.
The monument that was torn down is to a horrible racist who bragged about whipping a slave. There is no justification for that statue ever existing other than to "keep blacks in their place". This can't be honestly debated.
As to other statues, they glorify being traitors to the United States. There's no place for them.
traitors are traitors. they stopped being Americans the minute they took up arms against the Union.
the same rule applies today to your citizenship
I stand corrected about the person, but not what the feelings were when it was dedicated.
Taking up arms against the United States is treason. There is no wiggle room.
Whose feelings, the guy who gave the speech? So if someone builds a statue of Obama and I show up at the opening and rant about how hell yeah we bombed the piss out of those A-rabs under his watch, that means the statue soaks in those feelings and perpetually oozes them out?
Taking up arms against the United States is treason. There is no wiggle room.