Friday, August 18, 2017

The Taliban Left and their Useful Idiots will probably try to explain that this was an example of striking fear among freed slaves...

...rather than the perfectly normal attempt of a group defined by a war, and their families, to remember them by that formative event.

Confederate markers removed from Hollywood cemetery.

In other words, this is about Confederate-shaming, not about satisfying the political aspirations of the short end of 44% versus 40% of the Black population.

I stand with Abe on this issue - "Malice toward none."


Posted by Peter Sean at 2:11 PM
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Anonymous said...

"The national debate over the monuments’ future is not unlike what happened in Prague and other cities at the end of the Cold War. And I hope they meet the same fate. Confederate monuments were erected and dedicated by white southerners as an expression of their collective values—chief among them a commitment to white supremacy that secessionists were willing to die for. Many descendants of those southerners have decided, as the freedmen and their descendants already had, that the Lost Cause does not represent them—not as members of their respective communities, and not as Americans."

Fortunately, the citizens of each locale can decide what is right for them. I suspect most monuments will be coming down over time a each locale chooses to discontinue it "confederate honoring."

11:03 AM
Peter Sean said...

If it was a considered decision rather than a moral panic, that would be perfectly fine.

However, when a 150 year old plaque gets pried from a cement marker because it calls Confederate POWS "valiant", we are clearly in moral panic territory.

Also, most people - including a plurality of Blacks - have the common sense to support the notion that history is history and oppose tearing down confederate statues.

So, I question your conclusion, except for the whole "Confederate Shaming" thing that's going on. (See "panic, moral").

3:47 PM

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