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[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]

Robert Lee was nothing more than an illegal racist warlord who betrayed his country to wage a campaign of racial terror and destruction on half our population. His intentions were pure evil and countless patriots died to defeat this bloody menace. Also, the fact that his racist fan base called him "general" doesn't actually make him one. He led an illegal insurrection. That's like the Oath Keepers giving themselves fake military titles or the KFC guy calling himself "colonel." And you want to put up a statue for THAT GUY?![/quote]

The fact that long, nuanced biographies have been written about Lee, to understand and appraise rather than venerate him, suggests that you might want to shelve your commentary for a while until you can sound like something smarter than an angry teenager.[/quote]

Statues and street names are meant to honor people, not to understand or appraise them. We shouldn't honor these people.[/quote]

Correct. [/quote]

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