Hexx wrote:captain red dog wrote:Kanbei wrote:KK wrote:Donald Trump has just given a hell of a press conference apparently. Can't wait to read about it...
Well he just compared taking down a statue of General Lee to taking down a statue of Thomas Jefferson or George Washington
Well Washington and Jefferson owned slaves so that's not a bad comparison.
Did they go to war with their own country for the right to keep them?
First of all I just want to make it clear that I think having statues of people who defended slavery is a really stupid thing to do, but yes they actually did in a way. Washington and Jefferson both rebelled against their country (England), to avoid paying taxes for wars that were fought to protect the colonies from France. Yes, yes I know it's not technically the same thing because Washington and Jefferson actually won their war so the US became their "real country", yadah yadah yadah.
I also think it's a bit odd that these people who hate our "everyone gets a prize" society are fighting to keep statues for a bunch of people who lost.