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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this argument holds, should we tear down all the monuments that “glorify” George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc? They all arguably had more racist stances than Lee him self, who only fought not for the cause of slavery but for the cause of his own state. Better so, how about we just rename our capital city, Washington Monument, every school that has Thomas Jefferson in it, and rename the Jefferson memorial? [/quote]

BS. He had a choice. And he chose to fight FOR slavery. 
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If you read his stances, he never supported slavery. He initially wanted to fight for the Union under Lincoln, but couldn’t fight his own brothers and sisters and his home state. Oh and nice deviation from my proposal about Washington and Jefferson, I guess you get to pick and choose the racists. :roll: [/quote]

Washington freed his slaves.

Jefferson is a POS but he also didn't directly fight against our country.

Lee supported slavery so much so that he killed 600k Americans trying to protect it. If he didn't want to "fight his brothers and state" then he could have abstained from the war. Nope. He chose to actively defend slavery.

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So just because he freed his slaves makes his stance on race less evil? Lee wrote about the evils of slavery in his will. According to PPs’ posts, once a racist always a racists. Just because he didn’t fight his own country makes his acts against his slaves permissible? There is no justifiable reason behind wanting to minimize one but keep the others. [/quote]
Yes, there is, for anyone not trying to minimize this with the slippery slope fallacy.

Also, this:

[b][i]“We remained in prison fifteen days, when we were sent back to Arlington; we were immediately taken before Gen. Lee, who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to ‘lay it on well,’ an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.”[/b][/i][/quote]

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