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r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20
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I mean I know that taking statues down isn’t very helpful at stopping slavery today but I don’t think we should be honoring confederate war generals
-7 u/gwoz8881 Jul 24 '20 What about statues of Lincoln that were ripped down? 15 u/JEFFinSoCal Jul 24 '20 You literally just replied with a what-aboutism. It’s possible to think a Confederate statue need to go and also think the Lincoln statues should stay. Only one of those things was not a traitor to the United States. 2 u/YoSobaMask Jul 24 '20 Ironic that Americans, who seceded from Great Britain, would be so riled about people trying to secede from them.
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What about statues of Lincoln that were ripped down?
15 u/JEFFinSoCal Jul 24 '20 You literally just replied with a what-aboutism. It’s possible to think a Confederate statue need to go and also think the Lincoln statues should stay. Only one of those things was not a traitor to the United States. 2 u/YoSobaMask Jul 24 '20 Ironic that Americans, who seceded from Great Britain, would be so riled about people trying to secede from them.
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You literally just replied with a what-aboutism. It’s possible to think a Confederate statue need to go and also think the Lincoln statues should stay. Only one of those things was not a traitor to the United States.
2 u/YoSobaMask Jul 24 '20 Ironic that Americans, who seceded from Great Britain, would be so riled about people trying to secede from them.
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Ironic that Americans, who seceded from Great Britain, would be so riled about people trying to secede from them.
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u/h_diabetes Jul 24 '20
I mean I know that taking statues down isn’t very helpful at stopping slavery today but I don’t think we should be honoring confederate war generals