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In reply to the discussion: Is it possible to destroy everything of Confederate origin? [View all]Igel
(35,895 posts)They don't want everything erased. Just what they don't find convenient. If it's offensive, it has to go.
There are many sites to commemorate aspects of the South and of the Civil War. Those that honor anything Confederate are what they want disposed of. Remember it only as a horrible place? That's good. Museums to slavery on federal land are a fine thing, plantation houses in which it's not the stunning house that's really on display but the slave quarters, so it's obvious that the white masters only had their life style because of black slaves. Now, some people find that offensive, but they're not part of "the people." In fact, we like it if they're offended. But if you stop and think about it, we've defined some of the population as having rights; the others, I'm not sure we let them count at all.
I mean, even the original Constitution didn't go that far.