Posted on 05/15/2015 1:05:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
Oh Goody! Another iteration of Civil War finger pointing. :)
Oh Goody! Another iteration of Civil War finger pointing. :)
I don’t have ancestors from the war but to say southerners should not remember their brave ancestors is down right pathetic.
If southerners want to remember history and family then do it with pride and to hell with the NAZI kooks who tell you otherwise,
For whatever reason, my system didn't receive the return data packet refreshing the screen, and so I posted again.
Do Vindice
I wasn’t around then so I don’t pick sides.I am glad that the nation managed to stay together after four years of horror but I am a proponent of States Rights. In my view, the average Union soldier was not fighting to abolish slavery any more than the average Confederate soldier was fighting to uphold slavery. But to suggest that Confederate soldiers were not heroes is absurd.
:)
What absolute horshtt.
There is NO comparison between the holocaust and the War Between the States. None.
The POW camps were bad and many died, but they weren’t instituted to exterminate and entire race. Like you said, no comparison!
“There is no difference between Confederate flags and swastikas here”
This person has been brainwashed into oblivion.
In reality they are simple bullys.
And we know what needs to be done with bullies.
Agreed.
I thought it a fairly neutral article until I came to that statement.
I'm curious which phrases can be interpreted this way. I don't object to recognizing that southern fighting men were heroic, but I don't think Lincoln intended to say that they were also fighting for America.
I believe that from his POV "those who here gave their lives that that nation might live" were those who were fighting for the Union. The CSA dead, from this perspective, were fighting to destroy the nation.
Or, perhaps more precisely, the whole war was not just about whether there should be one nation or two or more, but what kind of country or countries those would be. What does America mean, or what should it mean?
I'm also not here claiming that Lincoln's POV was necessarily accurate.
There is no difference between Confederate flags and swastikas here, as long as the reason why people hold onto their past under those symbols is to prevent the repetition of horrific acts.
"Here" being the crucial word. What she is (I think) trying to say is that even horrific acts by ones ancestors need not be buried in shameful memory as long as the remembrance of those deeds is for the purpose of seeing they're not repeated.
Given the tone of the rest of the article and the source it came from, I really doubt she intended to claim there was "no difference" between Nazis and Confederates.
Writer is a dumb a**. Equating The Confederacy with Nazis.
No need to read further if proud of her Nazi ancestry was not enough.
dumb a** i understand... the asterisks represent the missing letters...
b*** i am missing something.
oh well, f*** it.
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