naturalplastic wrote:
How did an American city end up with a statue of Lenin in its park?
And how did a city in a state that was never part of the Confederacy end up with a "Confederate statue"?
List of monuments and memorials of the Confederate States of AmericaThere are or were monuments, street and school names in Arizona, Washington, California, Idaho, Ohio, Wyoming, New York (3 streets in NYC), Brazil and Canada (the one there was just removed)
For Lincoln and some union generals the most important thing was preserving the union so in that spirit, he wanted as little punishment as possible and rebels welcomed back as Americans. In that spirit, Confederate soldiers have been viewed as American historical figures and Confederate soldiers as heroes in the vein of other wars. Blame for wrong causes has been usually ascribed to the politicians that sent them off to war.
There are many monuments to soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. That war is commonly thought fought for the wrong cause if not a wholly evil enterprise. There have been no calls to take down commemorations to Vietnam War soldiers as far as I know.
Now the white nationalists and regressive left are reopening old wounds for political gain. The regressive left with the help of the white nationalists is winning handily at this time.
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