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Pentagon is reinstalling portrait of Confederate General Robert E. Lee with slave
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2025
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Well, that sounds good. So then to learn from history you'll be wanting to do a little Critical Race Theory right? You'll want people to know the history of LGBTQ+ oppression and the fight for gay and trans rights? You'll be wanting to promote Black History, the history of the civil rights movement, and indigenous history, since they were erased for so long, right?
Or could it be that this is more white supremacist doublespeak?
What a ridiculous thing to say.
Taking down a portrait is not erasing history, it's merely refusing to celebrate particular people or behaviors that the entire world finds abhorrent in 2025.
well, apparently not the entire world
The same dipshits pretended that people were learning history from statues. Instead of what those statues were actually for, and that was as a gigantic fuck you to Blacks, liberals, and the United States and a celebration of the Confederate traitor losers.
It's all lies. They didn't believe what they say, they're doing it to make their racist as shit supporters feel like they win someone, while they rob them blind and destroy their rights behind their backs.
Also, it's rich coming from the administration that has basically killed the Smithsonian because they don't want them to talk about slavery.