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Joe
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Joe asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 11 months ago

The confederate states were horrible and we're to forget they existed.  The holocaust was worse but we're supposed to never forget it . Why?

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  • 11 months ago
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    These are not quite the same. 

     The Confederate states are not to be glorified, but slavery is not to be forgotten.    The Nazi's are not to be glorified, but the holocaust is not to be forgotten

  • ?
    Lv 7
    11 months ago

    Why ask why, drink Bud Dry

  • ?
    Lv 6
    11 months ago

    That's your opinion. There is no answer.

  • 11 months ago

    No one has suggested anyone "forget" the Confederacy. They are only saying that glorifying the confederacy as something to be proud of is offensive. How many people condone modern versions of Nazis now? Thank god it's a minority. NOT forgetting these disasters of society is the only way to learn from them. 

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    Because the victims of the Holocaust were kikes, who control everything.

    African-Americans never had as much power and even today don't. 

    That's why. 

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    That's a laughably pathetic analogy. No one has ever suggested that we ought to collectively attempt to erase each and every piece of evidence that the Confederacy existed - but preserving evidence such as monuments intended to honour prominent Confederates or symbols intended to glorify the spirit of the political movement or the culture and traditions of the people who participated in the rebellion makes no sense. 

    I'm not American, but as a sane, rational, logical, intelligent human being, erecting monuments to the Confederacy designed to praise those who fought for the CSA sends the signal that there's something virtuous about the beliefs they held and the goals they tried to accomplish. 

    No one is calling for real historical artifacts such as flags, uniforms, weapons, pieces of equipment, letters, or personal effects to be destroyed. They ought to have a place in American museums. But flying Confederate battle flags and naval jacks from a government building is completely unacceptable. To ask taxpayers to fund the construction and upkeep of statues and monuments that honour the CSA, its leaders, or their exploits is also completely unacceptable. 

    Personally, I'd be against the banning of Confederate symbology. Americans love to attach the label "un-American" to things that they perceive to go against the tenets of what their country stands for. That's not to say that wearing a shirt emblazoned with a Confederate symbol isn't in poor taste or that displaying one at one's home or on one's vehicle isn't asinine and insulting, but people ought to be free to make their own choices. The government however, is not free to erect or maintain symbols that repulse a large portion of the population. End of story. 

    As far as your poorly thought out and very weak connection between the CSA and Nazi Germany, I must reiterate that no one has ever suggested that the CSA or the Nazi party ought to be erased from history. People are compelled to remember the horrors of the Holocaust. That doesn't mean that they're being asked to erase all evidence that Nazi Germany ever existed. And I will double down and say that I don't think Nazi symbols ought to be banned either. I happen to collect World War II memorabilia, and while my primary interest is on relics associated with the War in the Pacific, I own a substantial amount of German relics too and I have had some difficulty with having certain things shipped and obviously it's harder to display certain objects because of the inherent disgust people have been conditioned to react with whenever they see these things. 

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    Who has asked you to forget something darling?

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    No ones calling for us to forget that the Confederacy existed.  But there's a difference between remembering a reprehensible regime and honoring them.  To use your Nazi analogy we don't see statues of Hitler and Goering in towns around Germany.  We don't see buildings and streets named for Goebbels or Eichmann.  We're supposed to remember the Confederacy.  It's an important part of US history.  But these statues of figures like Lee and Jefferson Davis, and the naming of military bases (among other things) after Confederate officials is meant to honor them.  That's wrong.

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    All they're saying is to remove Confederate statues from public spaces and put them in museums or somewhere inside so people that want to see them can and people that don't want to see them don't have to see them by just walking down main street.

  • Anonymous
    11 months ago

    Holocaust is like that French movie right?

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