I love how both liberals and conservatives only give a **** about cultural preservation when it suits them. Cultures are, by their nature, susceptible to change, and even disappearance, through interaction with other cultures. There is nothing positive about the forceful preservation of any culture, be it liberals' absurd fondness of anything non-Western, or conservatives' desperate attachment to reactionary ideals. If a culture cannot survive the pressure from the free market of ideas, then so be it.
can you please explain to me why they want statue of lee gone. but not of the 12 presidents who personally owned slaves.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, J, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren,William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant.
8 of those owned slaves while in office.
ofcourse slavery is wrong. but now we seem to be judging people who lived in those times by todays standards in the case of Robert E. Lee and his cohorts.
they want those statues gone. but they dont want the others gone. it just annoys me this hypocritical crap while committing cultural genocide
edit: ofcourse there is revisionist history that lee was opposed to slavery so h could be an "honorable symbol" of southern heritage.
there is evidence for and against this theory. but now after 150 years we could not know.
and history is always written by the victors.
on antoher side the stories passed down by people who fought for the south should also be considered as somewhat true.
as some stories go he did not technically own slaves he inherited a plantation with slaves. and freed them before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. some say it was only then.
but why judge him for having slaves while 12 other rpesidents have and they all have statues and some of these slave owners are even on money
