As Confederate monuments tumble, die-hards are erecting replacements

[Zorro]

The teardowns get all the attention, Walter “Donnie” Kennedy grumbles.

Every time a local government votes to remove a century-old Confederate war monument, every time activists swing ropes around statues and yank them to the ground, “our enemies claim victory again,” said Kennedy, the chief of heritage operations for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. “We know America doesn’t agree with us — heck, they fought a war against us — but we’re going to tell our story.”

Their membership might be dwindling, and their popular support seems to shrink by the day, but the guardians of America’s 700-plus Confederate monuments are mounting a serious defense — filing lawsuits and demanding control of statues slated for removal.

They, too, are launching a concerted offensive.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans and, in a quieter way, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the group that erected many of the monuments that are now the target of the biggest removal campaign in history, are pushing back by building new statues, buying land to house torn-down memorials, and airing radio and online ads seeking public support for their cause.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/as-confederate-monuments-tumble-die-hards-are-erecting-replacements/2020/07/25/44f537ee-cd04-11ea-b0e3-d55bda07d66a_story.html

Assholes gotta be assholes.

[Docreed2003]

1. "They fought a war against us..."

Yeah, and we won asshole

[Archetypist]

4. If he doesn't like it

he can fuck off to Brazil

[KatyMan]

9. I thought WE were us?

Why do they hate America?
.

[exboyfil]

2. Private land

I don't have an issue with it. Trump has plenty of places he could put them. I wonder why no reporter asks him about it.

[matt819]

5. Right

What they do with their own money on private property, as long as it doesn’t violate locate ordinances is their own business. They’re still assholes.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. Being descended from Confederate sympathizers on my Mother's side

I don’t mind them having smaller memorials in private BUT NOT IN YOUR FACE IN A BIG PUBLIC PLACE.

[Zorro]

7. The enormous Confederate flag flying at Tampa's I-4/I-75 intersection is on private land

but it's a giant in-your-face FUCK Y'ALL to everyone driving by. I think it will be a flaming arrow target someday.

[2naSalit]

8. I hope that happens sooner than later!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

11. I hope someone driving by will stop to video it.

While it burns.

[Thomas Hurt]

6. Sons of the Confederate Veterans is a christofascist political organization.....

hiding behind "history and heritage". My step dad was member, read a couple of their magazines, far right propaganda.

[TexasTowelie]

10. Can't really control what people place on their private property,

so at this point we will have to be satisifed with removing the statues and memorials from public property.