GOP senator to try to reverse requirement that Pentagon remove Confederate names from bases

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said on Thursday that he will try to remove a requirement that the Pentagon rename bases named after Confederates from a mammoth defense policy bill.

"I will offer an amendment to undo this effort at historical revisionism. I will offer it not to celebrate the case of the Confederacy but to embrace the cause of union, our union, shared together as Americans," Hawley said from the Senate floor.

"It is time for our leaders to stop using their position here to divide us. Let us work together instead to build on the history and the responsibility that we share as Americans to continue that unfinished work of this nation," he added.

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Hawley added during his floor speech that the amendment was trying to "erase from history ... every person and name and event not righteous enough and to cast those who would object as defenders of the cause of slavery."

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/502388-gop-senator-to-try-to-reverse-requirement-that-pentagon-remove-confederate

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Hawley's pandering to white supremacists.

You can't "embrace the cause of union" by leaving bases named after Confederate generals. Leaving those traitors' names on the bases does celebrate the Confederacy.

[guillaumeb]

1. Embracing the union by commemorating those who tried to break that union?

The US civil war was actually about slavery, Mr. Hawley. The southern rebels were defending slavery.

[SheltieLover]

3. Right!

Crock of 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩!

[madaboutharry]

2. This is the moron who replaced Claire McCaskell.

Claire McCaskell was sometimes criticized here on DU for being too centrist, but we’re talking about Missouri.

McCaskill is always smart. Every day.

What is it about republicans that they keep electing idiots?

[moose65]

4. Good lord

Does he even know the history of his own state? Missouri was torn apart by Unionists and Confederates, even though it didn’t leave the Union.

[captain queeg]

5. Wouldn't want to spend any time on the pandemic, unemployment, race relations

This is all we get from the rethugs; simple emotional issues. I guess it’s worked for them. Hopefully that will change. I hope when the blue wave comes in November the Dems are ready to stop playing nice with these assholes.

[Ford_Prefect]

6. I've had enough of this hysterical double-speak by Republicans or anyone for that matter in defense

of those traitors in grey. This is the lowest form of pandering that winks at 400 years of a terrible history and nods to those who would re-impose it as the new American dogma now.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Has the Commander in Chief spoken out either way on this issue?

Has the Commander in Chief spoken out either way on this issue?