US Politics on Yik Yak | I think it’s interesting how people always go to the “we need it for historical purposes” argument when it’s a Confederate monument but not like plantations or slave markets. The Germans kept the concentration camps up but not the Nazi flags

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I think it’s interesting how people always go to the “we need it for historical purposes” argument when it’s a Confederate monument but not like plantations or slave markets. The Germans kept the concentration camps up but not the Nazi flags

They should’ve made it treasonous for the confederate flag to be flown anywhere after the Civil War and I stand by that

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Anonymous 5w

All of this to say that I’d buy that argument way more if it we were protecting places where people suffered as a reminder of the cruelty rather than the statues of people who fought for that to continue

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Anonymous 5w

I’m starting to think it’s because they can’t read, so textbooks won’t help /s

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