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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are taking down a bunch of statues in New Orleans. I hope they at least move them somewhere where students of history can view them. I dont mind occasions renamings if someone new / more relevant is to be honored - but this surgical excision of America's past is horrifying. They say study the past to avoid repeating it, but we are just hitting delete. How computer generation.[/quote]

The progressive agenda cannot survive concurrently with an understanding of history. Removing history is the worst kind of control.[/quote]

So you plan to educate your children by driving on roads?  I am confident that I can educate my kid using other materials.  I think I will start with books.[/quote]

Nobody is "removing" history.  History is taught in textbooks, not highway signs.  And actual history is to teach that Jefferson Davis led a failed insurrection in order to cling to an unsustainable slave economy for the South.  As for old confederate monuments that have been around for a long time, I don't necessarily think it's a requirement to remove or destroy them, but I do think they should have interpretive signage that tells the whole story including how it was in support of slavery, rather than the misguided glorification of a failed rebellion that continues to fuel idiotic neoconfederatism.[/quote]

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