Removing Confederate Statues Unfair To Southern Heroes Who Did Other, Later Racism, Says Idiot

[Nevilledog]

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Culture warrior Matt Walsh has come up with a unique rationale for keeping statues of dead Confederates in the US Capitol: Removing the monuments would be a grave insult to southern states, because even if the men depicted fought against the USA to preserve slavery, many of them went on to serve their states in Congress later, and isn't it mean just to cancel them for a little light treason in their youth?

In his daily video blog for Ben Shapiro's Internet Whining Concern, Walsh argued for the "cancellation" of House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy and the other 66 Rs who voted to remove statues of Confederates from Statuary Hall.

You see, kids, by excluding people simply because they happened to take up arms against the United States in a treasonous rebellion, the bill, which passed the House and is pending in the Senate, would remove statues of "men who served in Congress after the war was over," and how is that even fair? Walsh doesn't even like calling these "Confederate Statues," because that obscures these fine men's "distinguished careers" following the end of the war.

Here's the video, cued up to the start of the segment, although if you want to see his earlier rant about the Washington Post allegedly pushing kinky gay stuff on children, you can do so for extra credit.

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[The Magistrate]

1. A Statue Of General Longstreet, Ma'am, Would Be Worth Having

He was on the right side during Reconstruction.

[Retrograde]

2. Funny how you don't see many statues of him

Maybe it had something to do with his saying the Civil War was due to slavery rather than states' rights

[rickyhall]

3. My ancestor's brother, Robert E. Lee, told them NOT to building any monuments.