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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is shameful we ever had statues to those treasonous traitors.  The reckoning is long overdue.[/quote]

They weren't treasonous traitors.  Stick to facts.

I don't mind taking down the statues but there's a lot of recent revisionist history from both sides.  [/quote]

Don't "both sides" it.   They chose to secede from, and then fought, the rest of the country (the union) over their wish to keep slaves.  The desire for unity rather than calling it what is was is an open siore in the body of this country that has never healed and won't until it has fresh air and sunlight.[/quote]

The first PP is one who was revising history.  It is definitely both sides doing it.

[b]When I went to school, we were taught that the US was an amazing country because we had a civil war and recovered from it instead of being irreconcilably split, as happens in other countries.  I thought that was a positive part of our history, that we successfully reunified.  But in the past few years, I'm not sure that's true anymore. [/b] [/quote]

I think that you are actually correct to question such a triumphant narrative.  There is still a lot of work to be done before we can truly become an amazing, unified country.[/quote]

Demonizing current Southerners ain't it.  Taking down statues is one thing, wanting to kick out states or people is another.  There's a lot of work to do.  I don't see many people trying to do any of it.  [/quote]

We should be doing both. Tearing down statues AND kicking out states. [/quote]

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