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Gov. Youngkins New Appointee to the VA Board of Historic Resources Says Robert E. Lee Was a Morally Fine Human Being; Secession Was NOT Treason; the Norths Invasion of the South Was just like we see Russia invading Ukrainehttps://bluevirginia.us/2022/07/audio-gov-youngkins-new-appointee-to-the-va-board-of-historic-resources-says-robert-e-lee-was-a-morally-fine-human-being-secession-was-not-treason-the-norths-invasion-of-the-sout via @bluevirginia
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Audio: Gov. Youngkins New Appointee to the VA Board of Historic Resources Says Robert E. Lee Was a...
The other day, I wrote about Gov. Glenn Youngkin's new, Confederate-monuments-defending appointment to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. Among other things, Youngkin's appointee, Ann...
8:42 AM · Jul 18, 2022
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Gov. Youngkins New Appointee to the VA Board of Historic Resources Says Robert E. Lee Was a Morally Fine Human Being; Secession Was NOT Treason; the Norths Invasion of the South Was just like we see Russia invading Ukrainehttps://bluevirginia.us/2022/07/audio-gov-youngkins-new-appointee-to-the-va-board-of-historic-resources-says-robert-e-lee-was-a-morally-fine-human-being-secession-was-not-treason-the-norths-invasion-of-the-sout via @bluevirginia
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Audio: Gov. Youngkins New Appointee to the VA Board of Historic Resources Says Robert E. Lee Was a...
The other day, I wrote about Gov. Glenn Youngkin's new, Confederate-monuments-defending appointment to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. Among other things, Youngkin's appointee, Ann...
8:42 AM · Jul 18, 2022
https://bluevirginia.us/2022/07/audio-gov-youngkins-new-appointee-to-the-va-board-of-historic-resources-says-robert-e-lee-was-a-morally-fine-human-being-secession-was-not-treason-the-norths-invasion-of-the-sout
The other day, I wrote about Gov. Glenn Youngkins new, Confederate-monuments-defending appointment to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources. Among other things, Youngkins appointee, Ann McLean, claimed that Thomas Jefferson really loved many of the people that he cared for and his laborers; claimed that criticism of Jefferson is going back to Karl Marx; cited a debunked book about Jefferson by Christian nationalist David Barton; etc. So this morning, McLean went on right-wing talk radio (WRVA) and had some more, er, interesting things to day, this time about the push by Sen. Tim Kaine and Rep. Don Beyer to end Arlington Houses Robert E. Lee Memorial designation. According to McLean:
Robert E. Lee was a morally fine human being who understood the constitution of 1787.
The constitution was broken when Lincoln called up 75,000 troops to fight against secession. And, she added, secession was not treason each state was allowed to secede, we all had seceded from Britain each state was like its own country, so Lee considered Virginia his country.
Invasion, just like we see Russia invading Ukraine, invading a new territory was wrong. And so many people want to just flatten the whole Civil War to slavery, and of course we know slavery is not good. But I think slavery would have been outlawed in the South within 5 or 10 years, but they wanted to do it on their time.
Again, Youngkin appointed this Confederacy apologist who among other things minimizes the importance of slavery and compares the United States under Abraham Lincoln to Russia under Vladimir Putin to the Virginia Board of Historic Resources! So next time you read some idiot journalist blabbering on about how Youngkins some sort of sane moderate whos not Trump-like at all, just remember that hes made numerous extreme appointments to his administration (e.g., Elizabeth Schultz, Andrew Wheeler, Dr. Marty Makary, Colin Greene, Casey Flores, etc.), including this one!
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Youngkin picked a doozy for the Virginia Board of Historic Resources (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2022
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HAB911
(8,910 posts)1. I went to HS in Va for my senior year
all rural Va. is eat up with that shit
underpants
(182,865 posts)2. Some people go back for seconds on losing.
spanone
(135,858 posts)3. Youngkin drew a map for future trumpists....lie about everything you intend to do.