The George Floyd Case Discussion Thread

[Weltall]

So, I lived the majority of my life in the capital city of the Confederacy and grew up with its history all around me.

Confederate statues should be left standing, but thoroughly defaced and repurposed to serve as a reminder to everyone that the Confederate States of America was a failed, anti-democratic, authoritarian slave state who killed more Americans in their war of aggression than all of America's foreign enemies combined in 250 years. There is literally no positive value to the Confederacy or its history except that their willingness to kill Americans to preserve slavery hastened the end of slavery. They were not just enemies of the United States, but of all its high ideals and basic human decency. It is a worthless heritage that deserves to be dishonored and blemished, but not erased. For, to erase it would be to protect it from the scorn it deserves. 

In all honesty, the USA should have erased and damned the memory of the Confederacy right away, as the Germans did with the memory and symbols of the Nazis.