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.
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.
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.
Yeah, ok, fuck that. Tear the fucker down
Do the next sentence too:
Yeah if we had treated them the way Rome treated it’s conquests or if they had actually beaten their swords into plough shares this might be true.
Back in reality their great-grandchildren are trying to bring about civil war 2.
So no, this is a monument to an imaginary peace held by traitors that should be melted down into a monument to all the slaves who were forced to fight against their own freedom.
Holy selective quotation, Batman!
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.
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I dunno how many Al Qaeda members are buried in Arlington Cemetery. Should prob look that up.
Well there is a precedent where they buried enemy combatants in Arlington.