Conservatives, if you really think about it, aren't all monuments to Confederate officers really just huge, pricey participation trophies?

The plan for the removal of the southern civil war monuments has always been to place them in museums. Traitor Museums.

This exposes the south for what it was:

A radical group of traitors who were more interested in maintaining slavery in America than it cared about the "the little guy" who they convinced through lies and propaganda that they were fighting "a war of northern aggression", and then were sent off to die in the tens of thousands.

That's what museums are: learning centers. And, the people of the south, like the people of Germany after WW2, need to be reminded these men were NOT heroes.

They were all, each and everyone of them, a Traitor to their Country.

No thats trolling. You have no clue how many were patriots just wanting state rights untaxed. Robert E Lee fought against the mexicans for the United states. He was asked to lead the union but declined because he refused to fight his own virginians.

The Civil War is part of this country's history. If the people down South want the statues to stand, they should let them. They are a reminder of the reason the country went to war and the hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides, slaves included, who fought to end it. And those lives should be remembered, even the losers. Lest we make that mistake again.

The are part of the totality of American history.

It's only my adopted history, as my family got here 30 years after it was all decided. But I accept it all and don't get riled up by flags, monuments, and statues. I got big shoulders.

It's our history, and if you start taking down statues where does it stop?

“When you start wiping out your history, sanitizing your history to make you feel better, it’s a bad thing,” Condi Rice said.

"I’m a firm believer in ‘keep your history before you.’ And so I don’t actually want to rename things that were named for slave owners,” Rice replied. “I want us to have to look at the names and recognize what they did, and be able to tell our kids what they did and for them to have a sense of their own history.”

Fail