“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” ― Edmund Burke.
On Wednesday 8 2020 at Virginia's capitol, Richmond, the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed and cut into pieces, the liberal politicians believe he was "racist" and politically incorrect" by today's post-modern standards.
Removing historical monuments from the Civil War or the statues of historical figures like Canada's first PM Sir John A MacDonald and Confederate General Robert E. Lee (pictured above) to erase history is a mistake.
Not everyone will agree on iconic individuals, but those monuments should be left alone, every country’s history has a dark spot in it. More than one, if we’re being honest. But the fact that we aren’t still mired in those dark places means that we have made strides toward becoming better. Erasing history, though, is a dangerous path because it means that the truth becomes something malleable that has been created instead of recorded.
Rewriting history is positively Orwellian, and this would lead to a VERY dangerous path.
Since the internet days, many people have been archiving old historical documents of their culture, history and pasts so we can learn from them for a better future. But some morons he don't like history or took social studies don't agree with this.
Ever since the Americans took over the Confederacy, they hated Southern culture with a passion and a iron fist. Make fun of us as redneck/hillbilly stereotypes and try to turn us into post-modern degenerates. They call the Confederate flag a hate symbol and call for removal like it's some unholy thing. For over 150 years, they have tried to rewrite our history and called all Southerners "racists" because 5% of the population (the rich) in the South, owned the slaves. According to the American education system, they mostly know how most wars started but can't figure out what caused the Civil War? The Americans claim it was about Slavery. The Southerners claim it was aggression and corruption. So... a bunch of white boys leaving their wives and kids, risking their lives to fight so a black person can pick their cotton for them. Yeah...no. That doesn't make any since at all. They don't even talk about the non- states that was part of the Union, that legally allowed Slavery until the end of the war. If the Americans say "it was for Slavery", then why didn't states freed them until the very end of the war? Hmm. No one wants to talk about that for some reason...
“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
In Hollywood movies, Americans are often portrayed as the "good guys" sometimes with Native Indians as allies. That is inaccurate, most Native Indians had nothing to do with the Americans because they were hungry for territory and the Confederates didn't want their land and leave them be, so the Cherokee was the only tribe to ally with the Confederates to fight the Americans. After the war, the Cherokee suffered the worst of the Reconstruction era because of the Americans.
Ulysses S. Grant is often portrayed as a "good guy" in media, but he is known for allowing the destruction of millions of bison on the Western Plains to keep Indians on their reservations. This led to conflict with the Plains Indians, who needed the buffalo for food and their tribal religion, making them starve. No one talks about this and the consequences of the aftermath of the Civil War. It's odd that his statues haven't been removed or touched.
Bias towards historical facts can be manipulative and disrupt the way people think, especially if it's race bait. This has been a controversial problem for many years.
Confederate Veterans Reunion, Huntsville, Alabama. Thursday, February 2, 1928.
(Photo courtesy of the Alabama Dept of Archives)
After that horrible Charleston church shooting in 2015 caused by Dylann Roof (who had mental issues), caused a wave a removal of the Confederate flag, the cultural symbol of the South. Every mainstream outlet and store from Walmart, Amazon and US Parks removed or had harsh restrictions on that specific flag. Any flags or symbols of any kind are protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
The flag is NOT a hate symbol and most Southern people are not Nazis and do not believe in that ideology. Many have joined the US Military in the 40's to defeat the Nazis, geez... Why does the American "Yank" media keep mixing those two things to make us look bad? I have know idea. And the KKK does not represent the entire south, they belong to their own ideology, they mostly don't like the South and don't have real Christian values.
U.S.Marine hoists Confederate flag during WWII
The flag represents the South, it's culture, Christian symbolism and cultural heritage and many Southerners are proud of it. Imagine if the Americans took over Canada and wants to ban their precious Mable leaf flag or Red Ensign. They would feel the same.
Similarly, after the Japanese surrender to American forces, the Japanese Imperial flag was banned until 1954, the flag was re-adopted and approved by the GHQ to use for the JSDF. By the way, Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt (NY) ordered the Internment of Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1946. People still complain and wine over that, but why ain't FDR's statues removed? Bias.
US Soldier in the Korean War.
On May 19, 2016, the United States House of Representatives voted to ban the display of Confederate flags on flagpoles at Veterans Administration cemeteries, by a 265–159 vote. The ban was contained in an amendment (House Amendment 592, 114th Congress) to House bill 2822, an appropriations bill. # The author of the amendment was California congressman Jared Huffman, (who's obviously not from the South) stated that the flag represented "racism, slavery and division."
The FBI and Police are known to get involved into investigations involving displaying of the flag despite being protected under the Fist Amendment of the US constitution.
US Soldiers in the Persian Gulf War
On December 15, 2020, the State of New York passed a law "to prohibit the sale or display of hate symbols in public buildings and public grounds including state and local fairs, unless serving an educational or historical purpose." The law defines hate symbols as, "The term "symbols of hate" shall include, but not be limited to, symbols of white supremacy, Neo-Nazi ideology or the Battle Flag of the Confederacy.
By the end of World War II, the use of the Confederate flag in the military was rare. In 1952, Destroyer Division 122 (known as the "Dixie Division" because its four commanders were from the South) was ordered to stop flying the Confederate flag. In 2020, Commandant of the Marine Corps David Berger directed Marine Corps leaders to remove all Confederate-related items from all the Corps’ bases throughout the world. The U.S. Navy also banned the use of the Confederate battle flag in all public places on installations, ships, and aircraft in 2020.
In this 1967 press photo by Toshio Sakai, U.S. soldiers in Vietnam ride a tank displaying a Confederate flag. (Photo: manhhai/flickr/cc)
In 2020, after the George Flyod incident (who died of a drug overdose, fentanyl). Caused on June 27, 2020, the Mississippi Legislature to be pressured to vote to suspend rules in order to debate over and vote on a bill to address the flag issue. On June 28, both houses passed a bill to abolish the state flag, remove the flag from public institutions within 15 days of its enactment, and create a nine-member commission to design a replacement that would exclude the Confederate battle flag and include the motto "In God We Trust".Governor Tate Reeves signed the bill into law on June 30, 2020.
Former US President Donald Trump expressed support for the removal of Confederate flags in 2015. (He is a New Yorker after all).#
In Virginia, they want to rewrite Virginian and Southern history, by removing statues of native Virginians like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington because they "owned slaves" and that hurts people. Well, they need to SUCK IT up, because that's history.
3 Virginians, George Washington (America's first President), Thomas Jefferson (Second president and Virginia's first Governor) and Confederate General Robert E. Lee did owned slaves, that was the norm back then and not all but most slaves were treated decently. Most Southern people couldn't afford a slave because they were very expensive and most white men did their own farming and work. If the South won, they would've been freed anyway as most people of the South didn't agree with slavery. Brazil ended slavery 'til 1888.
Washington and Jefferson were the most influential Virginians in the United States.
In Virginia, Lee–Jackson Day was celebrated on the Friday preceding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day which is the third Monday in January, until 2020, when the Virginia legislature eliminated the holiday, making Election Day a state holiday instead.
In 1900, Lee was one of the first 29 individuals selected for the Hall of Fame for Great Americans (the first Hall of Fame in the United States), designed by Stanford White, on the Bronx, New York, campus of New York University, now a part of Bronx Community College. However, his bust was removed in August 2017 by order of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The Commonwealth of Virginia issues an optional license plates honoring Lee, making reference to him as 'The Virginia Gentleman' and Sons of Confederate Veterans. However, they were all removed and discontinued for political correctness and it might "offend" somebody. Well, whoopee fuck'n do!
In February 2014, a road on Fort Bliss previously named for Lee was renamed to honor Buffalo Soldiers, an all black US regiment from formed on September 21, 1866, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas that literately had nothing to do with Virginia.
On September 8 2021, at Virginia's capitol, Richmond, the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee was removed and cut into pieces, the liberal politicians believes he was "racist" and "political incorrect" by today's post-modern standards.
All of this censorship, prosecutions, and bans pretty much tells you that most Americans don't like the South, it's people, and their culture.
In relevance, since Canadians are more asleep than the Americans and Southerners, most are unaware that statues of their first Prime Minister John A. Macdonald are being removed from Quebec and Ontario. While Sir John A. MacDonald was not a particularly nice man (he didn’t much like Indians, Chinese or competitors), but he did play a very big role in the formation of Canada. In recent years, he has been criticized for some of the policies he introduced, particularly the "Indian Act" and the Chinese Head Tax.
Every human has a flaw, and they shall not be censored because of their flaws.
In 2017, the Canadian Historical Association had voted to remove Macdonald's name from their prize for best scholarly book about Canadian history.
On July 5, 2021, Canada's national library, Library and Archives Canada, deleted its web page on Macdonald "First Among Equals", calling it “outdated, redundant and does not represent the country as “diverse and multicultural.”. Barry Wilson, biographer of Mackenzie Bowell, fourth prime minister of Canada, dissented: “I honestly cannot understand why the biographies of prime ministers would be 'redundant' or 'outdated' in a country that has a poor historical memory.
When you search images of "Canada's First Prime Minister" using Duck Duck Go, they mostly don't show anything, but Justin Trudeau. Weird...
It's so bizarre that I wouldn't be surprised if they removed the old Canadian flag.
Why are most Canadian's not standing up against this? Oh, wait there still asleep...
WAKE UP!
The man that was credited for discovering America, Christopher Columbus, some his statues to honor him have been removed, consequently pissing off Americans of Italian decent and Italians in general.
In Post-Soviet Russia and other post Soviet states, many people are divided about what to do with the Communists statues and monuments including the iconic hammer & sickle, Lenin and Stalin. Yeah, NO ONE likes Communism or any type Socialism, Lenin and Stalin and their Communist regime massacred millions of people, but we have to learn the important history on why it's bad and depressing.
“Denouncing Stalin was Khrushchev’s greatest achievement, but removing him from all public spaces, trying to delete that history, was a big mistake,” said Nina Khrushcheva, a Russia expert at the New School in New York City whose grandfather, former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, tried to break the grip of Stalinism only to be ousted from power in a 1964 Kremlin coup. “Once you demolish somebody’s hero, you only incite hatred and force feelings underground.” She said.
Mikhail Y Schneider, a pro-democracy activist who led protesters to the KGB headquarters on August 1991, said attacking Dzerzhinsky’s statue was a “great emotional release” that “helped us believe we were living in a different country,” but “it changed nothing.”
“We are always looking backwards, and old ideas keep coming back,” said Alexei P Kondaurov, a retired KGB officer and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “But let statues stay in peace. They are witnesses to each epoch and its history. Talk about them and argue about them. But why tear them down?”
History teaches us important lessons. We learn from those mistakes, so we wont repeat it. Not to stare it up or manipulate it to cause chaos.
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
"What's Socialism? Lets get social!"
"What's Slavery? Yo girl, you're mine!"
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