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Thing is, I actually agree with Bacle that there are some positions some on the right hold that are rather... disquieting, to put it mildly, to those of us who are not also conservatives. I just don't agree with him that wanting to keep Confederate statues where they are is one of them.

It's also important to remember that, just because a statue is moved to a museum, it does not mean said museum is going to do anything with that statue other than put it into storage alongside all the other things the general public almost never sees.

Sadly, this is the part where I admit that I haven't been to a museum in over twenty years. As for voting on whether or not to remove a statue; while I disagree with removing them, putting it to a vote of the people is only way it should be done, if it is to be done. Not with a mob tearing them...

It's a matter of out of sight, out of mind. Think about it; when was the last time you went to a museum? Now consider the last time you walked down the street; if anything, we should have more statues everywhere, in my opinion, of sinners and saints alike. I want one of Valerie Solanas in front...

I disagree; I think slavery would have died out in a sovereign south on a similar time frame. Well, either that, or they'd be a third-world nation now. That they did. But again, the question remains; why did they feel either was being threatened? All true, and yet does any of that matter from...

Studying history has a habit of turning people into cynics, I've found.

First of all, unless you intend to argue that the north was full of saints, and the south full of sinners, the simple fact that the south rejected wholesale the idea of abolishing slavery, puts lie to the idea that the north came to the conclusion that slavery should be banned primarily because...

Thing is, they didn't; what they fought to defend was the south's autonomy. Ironically, slavery in the south would have died out as a practice eventually anyways, do to technological advancements that would have rendered using slaves obsolete even in producing raw goods. The war was totally...

You also have to keep in mind that the reason the south relied on slavery was because their primary export was raw goods; something which, at their technological level, made using slaves cost effective. Meanwhile the north, which produced manufactured goods, long before found that using slaves...