A Confederate memorial is to be removed from Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia in the coming days, part of the push to remove symbols that commemorate the Confederacy from military-related facilities, a cemetery official said Saturday.
The decision ignores a recent demand from more than 40 Republican congressmen that the Pentagon suspend efforts to dismantle and remove the monument from Arlington cemetery.
dope. arlington is for people who died defending america, not for people who died trying to destroy it. racist traitors don’t get consolation prizes, they should’ve been hanged for the traitors they were.
It’s always a good day when a confederate monument gets the Sherman treatment. The tragedy is that there are any left at all.
Good fucking riddance.
The statue, unveiled in 1914, features a bronze woman, crowned with olive leaves, standing on a 32-foot pedestal, and was designed to represent the American South. According to Arlington, the woman holds a laurel wreath, a plow stock and a pruning hook, with a Biblical inscription at her feet that says: “They have beat their swords into plough-shares and their spears into pruning hooks.”
I dunno, it sounds like the old Roman war memorials depicting their defeated enemies submitting to peace.
Edit: I just read the Wikipedia article describing the monument’s design and history. The sculptor was actually working in Rome, so the similarity to Roman monuments may not be accidental. But he was also using the monument to imply that Black slaves supported the Confederate cause, so the memorial’s removal is clearly appropriate.
The whole “lost cause” movement is about making it seem as if the Confederates were the “ethical” side, even though they lost. They symbology of the statue is heavily wrapped up in this concept - that even though the Confederacy was defeated, it was just and noble. Which, of course, implies that it would be noble to try again one day.
Do the next sentence too:
Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.
Holy selective quotation, Batman!
That does sound more like a monument to their defeat than to the confederacy itself
A shame he stopped where he did. I’m sure that’s a coincidence.
Some of the figures also on the statue include a Black woman depicted as “Mammy” holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.
Yeah, ok, fuck that. Tear the fucker down
Whats Matthew Perry Got to do with the price of fish ? Oh crappy website cant be scraped for correct article info and instead gets info on Matthew Perry if you dont edit it.
They are replacing the statue with a tribute to Matthew Perry
Friends ran for ten years. The CSA existed for four years. Technically Chandler is a bigger part of US history.
That’s a well known kbin bug - sometimes random images are selected (even porn)
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The folks itching to repeat it are the same folks who have hooked their “heritage” on a traitorous nation that lasted less time than some of my underwear and socks.
I don’t think removing these monuments to traitors from US soil is going to make much of a difference to them.
Also - monuments aren’t history books, and the folks trying to get sensitive events out of history books are also the same group of people trying to keep the monuments to traitors in place.
This. I grew up in Virginia with folks talking about how the civil war was about states rights and not about slavery.
They use all kinds of circular and backwards thinking to somehow suggest that the confederates were heroes.
Smelt all the confederate statues to make new statues that commemorate all the people who fought against these racist southern bigots.
Take your southern heritage and shove back up your ass where it came from in the first place.
This. I grew up in Virginia with folks talking about how the civil war was about states rights and not about slavery.
I used to believe it, and have made the argument more than once as a young person growing up.
We don’t want to celebrate wrongdoers with memorials.
There’s a reason why you don’t see statues of Hitler in Germany. That doesn’t mean he’s not part of their history or that they are not trying to learn from the mistakes.
Books and museums about the Civil War literally still exist.
Simply replace it with a memorial for the enslaved folks these losers fought to subjugate. Let the Confederate legacy be lost to time and honor the people who persevered through unimaginable evils.
