And that is true. All to often people try and judge people from the Civil War by today's standards of racism. In that then there isn't a person from the period who could pass muster.
Lee was only mildly opposed to slavery. So what? Even at that level that set him apart from most of the people in the South who thought slavery was the pillar of Southern society and would be around for generations. Lee's views on slavery or blacks do not make him a bad person or a vile racist. They make him a man of his times, no worse and in many ways better than his peers. He should be judged by those standards.
That’s my response- so what? People are so emotionally invested &/ or fearful of accusation, they don’t seem to be able to think straight. I don’t think slavery or “racism” are even the point (’useful idiots’ not withstanding). It’s just browbeating & beating a dead horse.
We agree. Or closely enough.