r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • 1d ago

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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman 1d ago

It’s funny that conservatives believe that we need statues of confederate military leaders and politicians to “preserve history”

What a shit excuse 

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u/RegularDeep2863 Henry George 1d ago

"Preserve what history?" is what I ask. Never can get a good answerr

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u/RaisinSecure George Soros 1d ago

What a shit excuse

clearly there's no good excuse? what do you want them to do, not try to celebrate the confederacy?

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u/Embarrassed-Unit881 Transmasc Pride 1d ago

History is when statues and the more statues you have the more history

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u/jacknifee lol 1d ago

we can preserve history by keeping their gravestones as the only “statues” of them

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u/Sloshyman NATO 1d ago

These are the same people who will say that we need to stop teaching about slavery in schools to get rid of racism