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Trump Admin Removes Slavery Context From Former Confederate Statue Site (truthout.org)
submitted 2 months ago by [B] to c/pravda_news@news.abolish.capital
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The Trump administration has removed language critical of slavery from the site where a Confederate memorial once stood in Arlington National Cemetery. The Confederate statue was taken down after Congress voted to remove it from the grounds in 2023. Upon the statue’s removal, a plaque was installed at the site putting the former monument into context, noting its revisionist history and its…

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[–] 30 points 2 months ago

The master white race agenda never left just switched hands. Elon Musk and Trump what a weird coincidence.

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    [–] 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    When's the Alamo getting a Santa Anna statue? What about a British soldier statue in Boston? We could celebrate all the losers equally well.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The Americans lost at the Alamo. It’s why the call is “Remember the Alamo” (and how Santa Anna killed everyone there)

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    The Americans lost? Which part of Texas was America in 1836?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    We lost at the Alamo. We did not lose the war, but we lost at the battle.

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    • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Why do the losers of the war have statues? They lost.

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    • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is the Fed just going to “white wash” everything?

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    • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    this is why statues glorifying horrors shouldn’t be "recontextualized", or hidden in an archive somewhere, they should be destroyed

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Truly disgusting.

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    [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    He somehow thinks we will ever have monuments to HIM. They won't be the kind he is thinking of however.

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