flexghost.

Your reminder: even Robert E. Lee was against putting up confederate monuments

Many monuments were erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy 50+ years after the war ended

Imagine being this proud of a heritage of slavery and losing.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monuments_erected_by_the_United_Daughters_of_the_Confederacy

List of monuments erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy - Wikipedia

Dec 19, 2023 at 3:10pmWeb
Show threadObsoleteDec 19, 2023
@flexghost
The South actually won the Civil War because the north cheated and fixed the results
Show threadflexghost.Dec 19, 2023
@SNerd and also let’s go Brandon
Show threadUncleCharlieADec 19, 2023
@SNerd @flexghost the didn’t lose, because their leaders weren’t hung as the traitors they were…also because they haven’t quit fighting. They may have changed their names, but the battle is still ongoing.
Show threadObsoleteDec 19, 2023
@UncleCharlieA @flexghost
They didn’t lose until THEY say they did! 😂
Show threadJonjiDec 19, 2023
@flexghost embarrassing to admit I worked for Arlington County, supposedly an extremely progressive place. This suit to stop it came from well outside the actual area!
Show threadflexghost.Dec 19, 2023
@jonjimama I spent some time there (dating someone who lived there) and from the little I’ve seen it was like most liberal areas of the country. What’s it really like?
Show threadJonjiDec 19, 2023
@flexghost you're exactly right, extremely liberal and interesting and intelligent. I was actually in the area for a few hours yesterday. Being from there, the homesickness is REAL, especially while there. I feel privileged to have been raised there. Arlington has everything great.
Show threadFilthiusDec 19, 2023
@flexghost I'm really tired of the "heritage, not hate" assholes. 🏴
Show threadC.S.StrowbridgeDec 19, 2023

@flexghost
I remember seeing a news story and this woman was saying these statues were a part of their heritage and should stay.

My first thought was, "There has to be something better about your town you can celebrate." So I looked it up and she lived in the birthplace of Tom Petty.

Put up a statue of Tom Petty.

Show threadflexghost.Dec 19, 2023

@csstrowbridge I won’t back down

Tom Petty now

Show threadEDVARDSDec 19, 2023

@flexghost

There is nothing wrong with memorializing a human life lost.

It's not about being proud of slavery or losing a war.
When you memorialize a person or people, you are not taking their side or saying they were saints or that they made the best decisions.

All you are saying is they were a part of our lives and should be remembered.

Wrong, right, winner, or loser...
I never want to forget the lives before me.

Show threadStewartvmDec 19, 2023
@EDVARDS @flexghost
That what grave stones are for. That's what cemeteries are for. This isn't about dead people though. This is about traitors to their country being celebrated, not just remembered. It's a celebration of the treachery not the the dead. Keeping a candle burning for the rancid hate of their ideology, not a nod to the universality of death and suffering in war.
Show threadJon Het.Dec 19, 2023
@flexghost we need a monument for Osama bin Laden next to confederate monuments.