Gandhi The Racist Must Fall....

SteakAndCake

No.  The Pyramids were built as tombs.  They were not built specifically to celebrate men who died fighting to preserve slavery.  Even if the Pyramids were built with slave labour (and that's far from certain), they don't exist for the soles purpose of celebrating it or people who fought a war to preserve it.

Context is key here.

krish

Because they were millenia ago, and are now just historical/tourism/economic assets, not loaded symbols of recent dishonour which are shrines to some. That's not me saying they should be removed, just sympathising with the reasons. Personally I would move them to a museum.


Not a sensible comparison

SteakAndCake

Tune in next week when stupid black man explains why the Swastika is an honourable Hindi symbol for good luck and he's just wishing Jews good luck by swinging it in their faces.

Pacifico

Civil War veterans are exactly the same as veterans in other wars and should be accorded the same respect.

SteakAndCake

This isn't about respect and we're not talking about the rank and file who followed orders.   Nobody is defiling Civil war cemeteries or removing memorials.  These are statues to the leaders of an act of treason against the United States.

Osama Bin Laden was a veteran of the War on Terror. Would you put a statue of him in the Mall in Washington to be respectful?

Pacifico

OBL isnt a US Veteran and didnt serve in the US military - so apart from that your question makes perfect sense.

Who decided this statue wasn't a memorial to Lee?.

SteakAndCake

Lee and Confederate soldiers were not US military.  They were CONFEDERATE military actively killing US military.  Their entire act was working to un-unite the states.

Lee has an official memorial in Arlington. That's his memorial, in an appropriate place with all the other veterans.  What is not appropriate is the hundreds of statues that are nothing but tributes to his life and actions that he himself was not proud of.  Lee didn't support statues, his surviving family don't support them.  If people want Lee memorials, fine have them,  put them in your garden on private land,  but not in public grounds in the middle of towns and cities containing the very people he fought to subjugate.

Pacifico

And the Law was changed in 1958 to make all Confederate Veterans equal to any other US Veterans.


Again - who decides what memorials Lee should have - you?. A majority of the American public are quite happy for the statue to remain where it is. It is only a small number of fascists who wish to rewrite history and impose their views on everyone else that are calling for its removal.

SteakAndCake

You literally have no idea what that word means.

SteakAndCake

I don't have an issue with Dukes of Hazzard. People have a choice to watch it.  The same is not true with a statue that they have to see every time they visit city hall or drive past the town square.