The Confederacy lost. The south lost. The Confederate army, led by generals of the southern states, lost, because those generals failed.

I never understood, and still can't understand, why ANYONE would want to display them prominently in a municipality-owned or state-owned or federal-government-owned park. UNLESS they're all lined up with a big sign at each end proclaiming it the Path of Shame.

LOL :1rotfl:

Just the fact that public students will have been exposed to at least 12 different teachers and around 400 other students, all who have their own experiences, by the time they graduate, versus 1 or 2 people who only have their own viewpoints/bias'/prejudices to pass on and drill into them...shows how silly (and dangerous) you're argument really is. :ohdear:

Here's why they were built.

Confederate Monuments (click here)

And they were so desperate to intimidate blacks, they just grabbed any old general they could find...regardless of how inept they were in the war. :1rotfl:

Slow the boat, you are going too fast. What is happening is not the eridication of history. They are not taking down statues of American heroes and presidents. Hitler, Castro, Stalin did not go in and remove statues of former traitors.

Now onto your argument about COPS and LivePD. Not sure that should be a major concern. In fact, I think LivePD has not been cancelled. COPS has lived a long life and had already dwindled in popularity enough that it has been airing new episodes on Paramount Network.

History is safe; books are safe. The ironic thing is much of published history has been polished to various leanings. Do you really think George Washington chopped down a cherry tree?

Cherry Tree Myth * George Washington's Mount Vernon

Pure liberal media endorsed
 

Liberal Media is pushing this agenda. Anything to destroy our once proud country. Wonder how they would react if we destroyed black history & monuments.

The only ones benefiting are not black or white but non law abiding. Americans.

Apparently you missed post #126 above

'Social Justice Warriors' Deface Statues Of Literal Social Justice Warriors

abolitionist Matthias Baldwin

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Lincoln Statue in London

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Anything can be next; too many people nowadays are so scared they might offend someone if they don’t BOW DOWN to their idiotic, senseless demands.

Defund the Police? Really damn stupid idea. Disband Police departments? Really damn stupid idea also.

It may be best if you do a bit more research in your position. This is a debunked interpretation. Think about it - If this was true, it would be a black eye to every US veteran who served our country honorably.

FACT CHECK: Did Congress Designate Confederate Soldiers as United States Veterans?

Our once proud country was built on the backs of slaves. The agenda is to stop glorifying the people who LOST the war. They lost. You don't want a statue of George Floyd in the town square do you? Why not? Because he LOST. He lost as a member of an oppressed minority, he lost as a man who disobeyed the law several times and was punished for some of it, he lost as a human being when he was murdered by a (currently ex-) cop.

So then what's your problem with tearing down statues of other people who lost? Having lost the Civil War is nothing to be proud of, if you're a Southerner or a "conservative." Your side lost.

Forget about Columbus because as mentioned - he never got into the competition in the first place. His "discovery" of the Americas did not extend to North America, at all. On none of his trips (he took more than one).

Ok...but the main discussion is the removal of statues of Confederate soldiers and the naming of US military bases after Confederates who tried to secede from the US. And yes...I have since heard Live PD was cancelled.

Since we are talking about tearing down statues, this was at a "protest" in Virginia.
George Floyd protesters: Virginia demonstrator critically injured after being hit by toppled Confederate statue | Newshub

Too bad!

Man struck in head by toppling Confederate statue in Portsmouth, Virginia. - YouTube

I saw a video that had some foul language and would have been deleted. Fun to watch though, again and again and again.........
Steve

Our public educators are doing a poor job. Far too much time is spent conditioning our children into being PC and pushing leftist ideologies rather than truly educating them.

U.S. academic achievement lags that of many other countries | Pew Research Center

Agree.
 

I agree with your assessment when you point out the need for us to respect all human lives. You point out that slavery was not exclusive to white Colonial America. When you point to Europe and only include Africans I don't think it goes far enough. Over thousands of years slavery was (although wrong imo.) common in many if not most cultures. And all slaves did not come from Africa. There were slaves from all parts of the world being sold and sent to all parts of the world. I'm not trying to justify it for, imo it can never be justified.
The phrase that prompted me to respond was "carry the guilt". Since my family, like millions of others, emigrated from various parts of Europe, Scandinavia to Canada and the US to avoid oppression and poverty long after slavery had ended, having never approved of or supported it, why is there this intense and insistent attempt to lay blame and guilt for it on all whites? We all know wrongs have been done,. We now need to quit the shouting and finger pointing, for that behavior only slows our progress toward a country and a world where all are welcome, respected and appreciated.

Not even close. They did not betray us. Why would we want statues honoring people who betrayed us? They are not our heroes. They attacked our great country.

Maybe just Participation Trophies...