Prominent rightist: tearing down Confederate statues makes you just like ISIS

[Underseer]

https://www.salon.com/2018/12/05/fo...ing-removal-of-confederate-monuments-to-isis/

Let's not forget that many of those "monuments" were put up specifically to intimidate minorities. They aren't just monuments to evil, they were part of the white supremacist terrorist campaign that brutalized African-Americans for over a century.

So of course opposing something that was part of a terrorist campaign makes you the "real terrorist here," because conservative (and libertarian) logic just works like that.

 

[untermensche]

I agree to a degree.

These statues do represent history.

They were not put up by any Confederates.

They were put up by racists in the 20th Century when racial segregation was legal.

They show how far racists will go to defend their racism.

They would rather start a war that ends up destroying their entire society than give up racist institutions of torture.

They should be in a museum somewhere, if Ingraham and her ilk want to pay for it, to remind people, but not out in the open as if they are something to admire.

 

[Mumbles]

A few of them can go to museums, historical films, and the like, where we actually learn about history. Most are cheap, mass-produced garbage. Melt those down and find something useful to do with the metal.

Hey, yesterday was the anniversary of Medgar Ever's assassination. Make a statue of him, and put it directly outside of Chicago PD headquarters. Maybe it'll remind them to not act like a street gang.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

What became of the old Nazi stuff in Germany? Did they burn it? Is it in a museum somewhere? Is any of it still on display in the country?

 

[Worldtraveller]

What became of the old Nazi stuff in Germany? Did they burn it? Is it in a museum somewhere? Is any of it still on display in the country?

None of it is considered "memorabilia" the way these morons in the US try to fetishize it. There are several of the concentration camps that are still around, but they are very sober, reflective, and somber affairs. So much so that they have pretty strict dress codes even and will kick people out if they seem to be anything less than totally respectful and somber. There are a fair number of items in various museums, but the german people look on that time as a "big mistake" to put it mildly, and many of the older generation are very worried about repeating it. Most nazi stuff was destroyed/recycled.

Why do you ask?

 

[Ford]

What became of the old Nazi stuff in Germany? Did they burn it? Is it in a museum somewhere? Is any of it still on display in the country?

A more recent example would be the old East German stuff. There's a movie that came out in 2006 called "The Lives of Others" which follows an agent of the secret police as he eavesdrops on a couple suspected of being subversives. I remember from the DVD features that the filmmakers had a hard time finding authentic East German locations because so much of it had been torn down and rebuilt. East Germany lasted much longer than the Third Reich, and 10 times as long as the Confederacy, yet a little over a decade after it collapsed enough of it had been erased to make a film about it challenging to make.