Protests and vandalism.
Agree or disagree as you wish.
Agree or disagree as you wish.
Isn't there enough issues to protest?
And how is vandalism necessary to convey any message?
Living in the heart of Virginia, there were lots of civil war battles fought on this soil. Lots of the battlefields are either national parks, state parks, or county parks. Honoring and remembering history and those that died in those battles. Most battlefields have reinactments. Many people enjoy seeing a living history battle relieved. So if it offends you, like anything else, don't attend. But like many things today, there's no shortage of things and people that are offended by seemingly everything. So anything connected to the civil war is deemed offensive.
Monuments in prominate public places... I can understand the offensive nature of it all... not the vandalism. Going to reinactments to disrupt and protest... what's the agenda? No one is forcing them to go to remote locations to protest something they will never see unless they go there... so how is this offensive to them?
And how is vandalism necessary to convey any message?
Living in the heart of Virginia, there were lots of civil war battles fought on this soil. Lots of the battlefields are either national parks, state parks, or county parks. Honoring and remembering history and those that died in those battles. Most battlefields have reinactments. Many people enjoy seeing a living history battle relieved. So if it offends you, like anything else, don't attend. But like many things today, there's no shortage of things and people that are offended by seemingly everything. So anything connected to the civil war is deemed offensive.
Monuments in prominate public places... I can understand the offensive nature of it all... not the vandalism. Going to reinactments to disrupt and protest... what's the agenda? No one is forcing them to go to remote locations to protest something they will never see unless they go there... so how is this offensive to them?
Going to cemeteries to desecrate and vandalize graves... criminal and despicable. Ignorant. Shows you that they don't even know history as they desecrate graves. While the powers in the south were indeed having the war be about slavery, the vast majority of confederate soldiers, estimated at 96%, were NOT fighting to preserve slavery. They were fighting to preserve southern rights to self govern, perhaps propaganda by southern leaders to get soldiers. The first two years of the war, northern armies were NOT fighting to free the slaves, they were fighting to preserve the union. Politically this changed in 1863, when the war was not going good for the north.
Yet the graves if confederate soldiers, that were NOT fighting to preserve slavery, are being vandalized. I truly don't understand how this is making vandals lives better. But that's society today. Offended by anything justifies any actions of protest.
Yet the graves if confederate soldiers, that were NOT fighting to preserve slavery, are being vandalized. I truly don't understand how this is making vandals lives better. But that's society today. Offended by anything justifies any actions of protest.
