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[J. Beckert]

(06-07-2018 03:31 PM)Rsmyth Wrote:  I view the German people's as both progressive and intelligent and there are no statues of Adolf Hitler or Joseph Goebbels gracing public squares in Berlin, let alone Nazi flags or other Nazi art. Public Nazi imagery was long ago destroyed, and swastikas were long since knocked off the walls of Nazi-era buildings. The only Nazi imagery you’ll find is in exhibits devoted to understanding the horror of the period.

Laurie, Gene, I believe this is the only side of the issue that is progressive and presents the history in an intelligent way.

When you believe that your side of the issue (argument) is the only side that's progressive, you've tipped your hand Rich, and shows an unwillingness to compromise, which is what's needed in this case. An emotional attachment to the issue precludes any vision into the mores of the time that are much different than a 21st. Century view.

Comparing the Confederacy to the Nazis is grossly unfair. Southerners weren't killing blacks by the millions simply because they were black, as the Nazis did to the Jews and many others they deemed "undesirables". Gen Lee's own statement that "slavery is our greatest moral evil" puts that to bed. It's time the country dropped the white guilt narrative. It's an empty position, jammed down our throats by the media and it's getting very threadbare.

And if we're going to whitewash history, we have to erase any mention of Gen's. Ben Butler, Custer and Sheridan. Their conduct upon Southern civilians was reprehensible and it prompted Gen Lee's General Order # 73.

http://www.johnccarleton.org/BLOGGER/201...number-73/

More soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict died in greater numbers than slaves.