A Trump-nominated federal judge has halted the removal of the Reconciliation Monument in Arlington National Cemetery, which the cemetery indicated Saturday would otherwise take place by week's end. While the iconoclasts have been momentarily restrained, the fate of the historic monument, also ca...
  • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
    5·
    9 months ago

    Never actually said the word “rebellion,” as you suggest. Called you a traitor specifically. Only once, not repeatedly. Did you actually read the comment? I don’t need to bring up all the points of the civil war, I think we all know those by now. This is all about you being a traitor and a hypocrite. Stay on topic.

      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
        6·
        9 months ago

        We’re talking about you and your refusal to say “I don’t support anything the confederacy stood for.”

        Do it.

        • Throwaway@lemm.eeM
          2·
          9 months ago

          Look, the reason I think you’re being disingenuous is I explicitly stated “Do not pretend the confederacy was good.” To me, that’s a clear indication that I don’t support the confederacy. So to just be absolutely clear, I do not support slavery, slavery is evil, and I think what you’re asking is a trap somehow, even if I can’t spot exactly how it’s a trap.

          And that goes doubly so that you’re still deflecting. Is rebellion worse than slavery?

            • Throwaway@lemm.eeM
              2·
              9 months ago

              Whats the trap?

              I feel like that specific wording is key to the trap. Maybe I’m just paranoid.

              But fuck it, I’ll walk into the trap and take the bait.

              I don’t support anything the confederacy stood for.

              Your turn. Is rebellion worse than slavery?

              • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
                5·
                9 months ago

                Only in the case where the rebellion is fighting for slavery and not against it.

                There is no trap.

                So take the post down, because if you don’t you’re saying it’s pro-conservative (by your own rules) and that conservatives support the confederacy.

                This type of thing shouldn’t even be talked about. The statue represents a fight for evil.

                • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
                  3·
                  9 months ago

                  The statue represents a fight for evil.

                  You correct. It represents the Democrats and their attempt to keep slavery. It’s exactly why it should be kept to remind people that the Democrats fought for slavery and continue to divide people by race even now.

                  • PeepinGoodArgs
                    4·
                    9 months ago

                    It represents the Democrats and their attempt to keep slavery

                    The slavery-loving, anti-civil rights malignancy that were the Southern Democrats shifted over to the Republican party, beginning with the contemptuous Strom Thurmond after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

                    The heritage of the Lost Cause is in the Republican party these days.

                • Throwaway@lemm.eeM
                  2·
                  9 months ago

                  Except it doesn’t. It represents the exact opposite, that the fight against evil was won.

                  So no, I’m not taking it down.