Sometimes help for America comes from the strangest places. Don't forget, we wouldn't be here if it weren't for the French helping us defeat the Brits. I'm not suggesting that statutes are exactly related, but the French ain't all that bad. They're just sick of war after having been marched across time and time again.
This isn't really a comment about the French as much as it is about Macron. I really doubt the majorities in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand support erasing their histories but their governemnts sure as hell seem to be at least supportive to it. Meanwhile, the liberal French president is coming out and stopping it cold before any statues are removed.
From the US perspective, it really saddens me. I'm from the south and am proud of our heritage and ashamed of some of it. But even on the wrong side of an argument, there can be great men. The erasure of history is just .... evil. We need to be able to remember it all, the good AND the bad.
And men can evolve in a lifetime. After abandoning their stupid war, Confederates received full Presidential pardons and they helped reconcile the country. It's a unique positive action that they did. They could have done differently. If you look at a Confederate statue and think "they seriously helped reunite the country after the war and Lincoln pardoned them", you will see the same character differently.
Sometimes help for America comes from the strangest places. Don't forget, we wouldn't be here if it weren't for the French helping us defeat the Brits. I'm not suggesting that statutes are exactly related, but the French ain't all that bad. They're just sick of war after having been marched across time and time again.
This isn't really a comment about the French as much as it is about Macron. I really doubt the majorities in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, or New Zealand support erasing their histories but their governemnts sure as hell seem to be at least supportive to it. Meanwhile, the liberal French president is coming out and stopping it cold before any statues are removed.
Understood.
From the US perspective, it really saddens me. I'm from the south and am proud of our heritage and ashamed of some of it. But even on the wrong side of an argument, there can be great men. The erasure of history is just .... evil. We need to be able to remember it all, the good AND the bad.
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And men can evolve in a lifetime. After abandoning their stupid war, Confederates received full Presidential pardons and they helped reconcile the country. It's a unique positive action that they did. They could have done differently. If you look at a Confederate statue and think "they seriously helped reunite the country after the war and Lincoln pardoned them", you will see the same character differently.
;after they killed Lincoln and got thier VP to alter the after the war plans