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--- Quote from: PhantOS on August 13, 2017, 02:25:36 AM ---i personally think that any statue of someone who owned human beings intentionally should be torn down.
why are you putting "owning people" in quotations? you know he re-enslaved a group of slaves who were supposed to be free by their contract but instead decided to renew the contract and continue owning them. and later when the slaves complained that they were supposed to be free, he turned them into the police and had like 10 of them shipped somewhere else

he literally owned people. he was a slave owner. there's no justification for it at all. if he singlehandedly donated a billion dollars to all the poor people in the world he'd still be a stupid stuffhead for owning slaves. what's 'weak' is that you're attempting to justify all this bullstuff simply because there are other (non-existant) liberal fan favorites that are somehow worse than him.

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Not to mention he was the general of a traitorous army lol. The guy was never arrested or killed either.

--- Quote from: ShadowsfeaR on August 13, 2017, 02:36:20 AM ---Post-war, Robert E. Lee actually began to support greater rights and equality. He urged his town and the south to follow law and denounced violent attacks against black people.

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What a great man, I might erect a statue tomorrow in my yard.

Tayasaurus:
Victor will always consider the other side "traiterous"

PhantOS:

--- Quote from: Tayasaurus on August 13, 2017, 02:38:34 AM ---Victor will always consider the other side "traiterous"

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luckily the good guys win most of the time

Daswiruch:

--- Quote from: Tayasaurus on August 13, 2017, 02:38:34 AM ---Victor will always consider the other side "traiterous"

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(?) Victor will remember this.

Alkatjo:

--- Quote from: ultimamax on August 13, 2017, 02:35:56 AM ---Regardless of what you think of Robert E. Lee as a person, at this point he's a symbol and figurehead for white supremacy. That alone is enough for his statue to be removed, and it explains why most of the people protesting the removal of the statue are white supremacists.
God shut up. No one cares that you don't care.

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But the point is, if everyone didn't care then it (this conflict) wouldn't have mattered in the first place. If you're still pent up about a guy who did some terrible things way before your conception, then maybe you should take a second to question your ability to rationalize what matters vs what doesn't instead of washing it off as "OoooOooOoooh no. White people idolize this guy because of slavery yatta yatta etc". You recognizing this problem IS the problem.

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