Protestors Topple Confederate Monument in North Carolina

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Hopefully Trump and co's whatabouterry irt linking the criminal scumbags of the confederacy with the American revolutionary heroes will end the "edgy" liberal trend of dismissing the American Revolution as a war between two equal evils (or even more repugnant, that the despotic British Empire represented a more "progressive" force). There's a reason all the abolitionists (Douglass et Al) cited Jefferson etc - because the philosophy of the founding fathers was one that inevitably viewed slavery as an immoral force that must be tamed (indeed, they were merely mistaken in believing it would simply wither away like magic).

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It's really bonkers that people are tying themselves in knots about this: if you put the bulk of your efforts fighting for a good cause (e.g. against British tyranny, against the Confederate slavocracy, against Jim Crow, against poverty etc) you are a good person that should be honoured, and if you fought for bad causes you're legacy shouldn't be honoured. All these hot takes from the alt right and culture war left alike are reminiscient of the most stupid of all historical takes, the false equivalency ("actually how can you condemn the Nazis, don't you know the raf bombed Dresden!!!!!").