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re: Vanderbilt pays $1.2M to remove 'Confederate' from dorm name
Posted on 8/16/16 at 10:19 am to Tdot_RiverDawg
Posted on 8/16/16 at 10:19 am to Tdot_RiverDawg
The folks who rail against "political correctness" on this topic need a reality check. Typically, losers of wars don't get monuments. The losers are typically killed and their ideology gets scrubbed from society.
Andrew Johnson's lenient reconstruction plan would probably be criticized as "politically correct", pandering to the Southerners, too soft on the treasonous rebels. The fact that the South was allowed any kind of autonomy was a goddamn gift.
If you want to criticize the scrubbing of monuments as "politically correct", pandering to the easily-offended, you need to also criticize the merciful reconstruction that created the political climate that allowed those monuments to exist in the first place.
Andrew Johnson's lenient reconstruction plan would probably be criticized as "politically correct", pandering to the Southerners, too soft on the treasonous rebels. The fact that the South was allowed any kind of autonomy was a goddamn gift.
If you want to criticize the scrubbing of monuments as "politically correct", pandering to the easily-offended, you need to also criticize the merciful reconstruction that created the political climate that allowed those monuments to exist in the first place.
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