Ry Dawson
Ry Dawson
Aug 24, 2017 · 3 min read

To say a memorial was built in the same time period that other bad things were happening is a huge stretch of guilt by association. Civil War Union generals went west immediately after the Civil War and butchered Native Americans. Grant was President when Custer was killing women and children. Grant is on the 50 dollar bill and there are numerous statues of General Custer as well as movies that make him a hero. Moral cherry picking is not an argument. Do not Native American lives matter as much as Blacks? The Chinese were made slave long after the war too and even today the US has sweat shops in China that use suicide nets for workers, but why focus on that when attacking statues of dead men is better for virtue signaling.

Statues went up as soon as they could go up. Grover Cleveland was president in 1895 and he opposed high tariffs, inflation and imperialism. He as very much in line with John Calhoun’s views who was the leader of nullification and South Carolina’s secession. They always start the story in the middle for the Civil War so that they can claim it was about slavery and not preserving the Union, and omit the fact the South Carolina was already threatening secession from the union over the tariff issue in 1828 long before the Civil War and slavery was not even mentioned.

The South did not burn down civilian structures, steal food, or rape the towns people. General Lee would not allow it. The North did, rape, pillage, and burn. General Grant who was a slave owner also attempted to have Jews thrown out of the treasury. “The Jews, as a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department and also department orders, are hereby expelled from this department within 24 hours from the receipt of this order.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/books/when-general-grant-expelled-the-jews-by-jonathan-d-sarna.html

Secondly you cannot tell someone else what a statue means to them. If you are offended by Southern Civil War statues then blame your own ignorance. General Lee whose statue is where the extremist groups decided to state their live action shit posting in Charlottesville, was morally opposed to slavery. If not for Lee, the city of Charlottesville may well have been burned to the ground by the Union army which had no problem doing that to Atlanta and other Southern cities nor did they have a problem robbing houses and raping women.

We dont know what McClellan or Grant would have done in Virginia because Lee, despite always have fewer men and equipment, didn’t lose any battles in Virginia. He protected those cities from complete annihilation. People in the South were fighting because there was an invading army. It amazes me that Liberals can see it, when say Iraq was invaded that the people fighting the occupation did so because they didn’t want a foreign invading army destroying their cities and way of life, and not because they were zealots for Saddam. 2/3 of the South did not own any slaves. And 5 Northern states had slaves and three Northern states rejected the 13th amendment to free the slaves AFTER the war!

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