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re: Vanderbilt pays $1.2M to remove 'Confederate' from dorm name
Posted on 8/16/16 at 11:07 am to LSUMastermind
Posted on 8/16/16 at 11:07 am to LSUMastermind
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you have a point, but you certainly dont want to be constantly reminded of the horrors im sure.
I don't mind the reminders. It is where we came from. I am a huge history buff and I understand that not everyone is. To me, you would do more to donate that money to a cause for the advancement of black people than to pay it for the right to scrape words of the front of an almost 100 year old building. Everyone wants to hide from the past and I don't like it. When Muslims in Afghanistan destroyed the old Buddhist statues the world went in a panic. Those statues truly offended the Afghans. But I wish they had left them up anyway.
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Posted on 8/16/16 at 2:01 pm to GnashRebel
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GnashRebel
Your subsequent comments have been reasonable. I was expecting the same old tired defense of the confederacy that is so often repeated, and then told we should "read our history". But I have no problem honoring the dead soldiers who were fighting for their homes and communities...as long as the memorial is not honoring the confederate government which was specifically fighting to defend the institution of slavery (per the "Articles of Secession" which publicly documented their cause).
But I definitely agree with you that the soldiers are not the villains, any more than the Vietnam vets were "baby killers". They should all be honored (with the exceptions of those committing war crimes, genocide, etc.)
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