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>>There were thousands of locals of one persuasion or another
>Really?
>You make it sound like a boy scout jamboree.
>Those marchers had one thing in common - they were protesting the removal of a statue of one of the most ignominious traitors in the history of this country.
>Can't say Lee was ignorant of the facts - he was a top grad from West Point.
>This was no country boy looking to have some fun killing Yankees.
>He consciously chose to betray the oath he had sworn and instead support the slave owners in his home state.
>His decision was directly responsible for the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and countless wounded - on both sides.
>If there was ever a definition of treason, that's it.
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>So, when someone says we need to keep that traitor's statue up, I really have to ask why.

Exactly. The feeble argument that the NeoNazi's and white nationalist make (along with Trump of course) is that by doing this you're 'changing history' or they're 'loosing their heritage'. Of course this is dumb because people do don't get the history education from statues and you don't need them to remember something (like I said - not statues of Hitler in Germany but everyone remembers him). As far as heritage - yeaaahhh there's nothing wrong with looking back on part of your heritage and saying geeee that was bad..and then maybe actually learning something from it. So basically you have a bunch of idiots carrying Nazi flags and confederate flags (two of the most anti-american symbols there is) claiming that they're doing this in the name of American patriotism because it's their American right to do so. The irony and stupidity of this seems to escape these people -- they say they are going to take back America in the name of Nazi's and Confederates with Trump's help? Like how dumb is this?