NoamChomskyIsHotsky

And yet the so-called CSA existed precisely because the wealthy and the powerful of Southern society wanted to preserve slavery. There are shades of gray in any historical event, but the Confederacy is not to be glorified. I myself have ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. No matter their *intentions*, materially they betrayed an elected government and served the interests of slaveowners. That will always be a black mark. Put the statues in museums, with proper context, sure, but not in honored public positions.

The issue isn't so much that people are trying to "rewrite" history as they are trying to remove the honored status of the Confederacy. I'm a Texan, my family's been here since before the revolution and I'm proud of that, but I know entirely too many people who glorify what was, at its core, an act of treason against an elected government in the interest of preserving slavery. I'm fine with Confederate paraphernalia in museums, with proper context, so we can teach that history but it shouldn't be glorified or honored in public. That's what removing statues, etc is about.

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