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Are you talking about the controversies regarding statues of Confederate war heroes? The thing they were celebrated for was fighting for the right of the confed

by olavk 8y ago

Are you talking about the controversies regarding statues of Confederate war heroes? The thing they were celebrated for was fighting for the right of the confederate states to keep slavery. > at a time when owning slaves was accepted by a large fraction of the population as fine. I guess you don't count the slaves as part of the population then?

cannonedhamster 8y ago
And it also ceases to address the fact that many of the Confederate statues were put up specifically to honor those who fought because the people who put up the statues didn't believe blacks should have civil rights and that the erections happened well after the civil war.