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[–] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 22 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Lee himself never wanted such monuments built.

"I think it wiser," the retired military leader wrote about a proposed Gettysburg memorial in 1869, "...not to keep open the sores of war but to follow the examples of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, to commit to oblivion the feelings engendered."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/robert-e-lee-opposed-confederate-monuments

but the saber rattling over putting up traitor statues tracks with these morons, because it's the same people who can't demonstrate enough how jesusey they are by going to the 40,000 seat megachurch to praise the one who said

5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+6%3A5-6&version=NIV

republicans are so fucking stupid

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Excuse me, but why should anyone care about what Lee wanted? The gentleman was accustomed to not getting his way after all.

The only pedestal he belongs on is the kind with a trap door.

[–] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

i don't know how your takeaway from the quote equated to "someone should care what lee wanted." i was using it to illustrate the hypocrisy of people who want to make the statement "i'm not racist, but i idolize racists"

not that they give a rat's ass about being hypocrites, or even know what the word means

[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 9 hours ago

I know what that word means... Hypno so it has mind controller powers and crit is shorthand for critter.

Wait there is no n... Shit... /s

Yes I know what hypocrite means, this was only a joke