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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Robert E Lee was a southerner and took up arms to defend that it was an honourable thing for him to do at the time and between that and his achievements as a military leader earnt him the statues. But watch out because here comes the modern world and we better then ever before know whats right and what parts of history we should have and those bits we must erase.
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No. It was not a honourable thing to do. He took up arms to defend the right to own slaves, against his own country, and in doing so a lot of people died. That is not honourable.
Nor is this a 'modern world'. Slavery was been widely accepted to be reprehensible so yes we do 'know better'.
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Instead of trying to rewrite or erase those inconvenient parts of history embrace them and learn from them so that everyone can be a little better.
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Clearly people are not learning if they continue to insist the statues are there to 'learn from history'. They're not. Do we have statues of Hitler to remind us of evil? No. The statues are there to
honour history. That's why people have statues. You said it yourself 'between that and his achievements as a military leader earnt him the statues'.