re: University of Alabama system to review all building names, remove Confederate Army plaques

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They want and are actively trying to tear down the whole country. Folks in this thread think it is just about civil war era monuments plaques and statues but they are coming after it all. There will be no appeasement

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The good ole Slippery Slope Fallacy.

"If they tear down the monuments that we put up, celebrating a bunch of racist traitors who literally killed Americans over the legal right to *own another human being*, they'll tear the whole country down!".

An emotional response with nothing supporting it.

I'm sad that I didn't see this thread earlier, but even more saddened by the content. It's embarrassing. Just because your great-great-great-great grandpappy fought for what he thought was right does not make him a hero. ISIS didn't think they were they bad guys either.

frick the confederacy. They were traitors, and them being manipulated by rich people to kill Americans so that the rich people could maintain their cheap labor force does not make them victims.

When the Union came to Tuscaloosa, the school was literally an enemy military establishment. Burning it to the ground was completely appropriate. frick the assholes who defended it. They do not deserve recognition.

Furthermore, if you don't see how celebrating the confederacy is going to be more and more of a challenge for admissions and our athletic recruiters, then you're fricking blind. Not only is it immoral, it's bad business.