How is a "Gen Lee High School" any different from a "Heinrik Himmler High School"? [View all]
How is a "Jefferson Davis Highway" any different from an "Adolf Hitler Highway"?
Yeah, I know. I went there with the Hitler reference. Tell how that would be wrong.
No one allows the Nazi names to be honored. Why do we allow the traitor Confederate names to be so honored? I fail to see the difference. And I don't give a shit if you're a direct descendent of Jefferson Davis. There are almost certainly Germans alive today who are direct descendents of well known Nazis, yet their country does not allow the sort of memorials some people in this country wish to continue for our traitors and war criminals. The only "memorial" to the Nazis are sites such as the concentration camps; sites that makes us reflect and consider, and to never forget the evil.
Tear them all down. Rename them all. Enough of the government endorsed perpetuation of the celebration of our period of white supremacy.
If we want Civil War symbols to be a part of our national consciousness, how about we limit it to restored slave houses on restored plantations? How about we endow forever the preservation of sites like the Andersonville Prison in Georgia, including a plaque explaining why war criminal Capt Henry Wirz was tried for murder, legally convicted, and executed? How about we memorialze WHY we fought a civil war; what the Union wanted and what the traitors wanted?
It is long past the time to change the paradigm from "The War of Northern Aggression" to the end of America's dark sins and crimes against humanity and initial attempts to atone.
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