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[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago

“I have a visceral reaction against, against the attacks on those statues,” he said. “There were heroes in the Confederacy who didn’t have slaves and, you know, I just, I just have a visceral reaction against destroying history. I don’t like it. I think we should celebrate who we are.”

And what, pray tell, was the Confederacy fighting so hard to preserve? Could it have been the system of slavery that the South depended on so much?

He added: “We should celebrate the good qualities of everybody. … If we want to find people who were completely virtuous on every issue throughout history, we would erase all of history.”

Uh oh, you can't do "purity tests" on historical figures. He's the type to say "Well at least the fascists kept the trains running on time" isn't he?

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

If we want to find people who were completely virtuous on every issue throughout history

Can't believe I'm going to use a debate pervert term, but i hate this strawnan of an arguement. The issue isn't about the people and their virtues - its whether or not we should have statues that glorify slavery and its champions. The obvious answer is no.

Destroying a symbol of white supremecy is not the same as "destroying history." If you understand the actual history of those statues you would understand why they need to be destroyed (unless you support white supremecy, which is RFK and every other chud or lib objecting actual opinion)