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Army restores the names of 7 bases that lost their Confederate-linked names under Biden (www.nbcwashington.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Those bases are Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Pickett and Fort Robert E. Lee in Virginia, Fort Gordon in Georgia, Fort Hood in Texas, Fort Polk in Louisiana and Fort Rucker in Alabama.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you read the comment, you'd know that the losers he's referring to are Confederate generals. Don't elevate the leaders of the racist civil war. It wasn't a blanket statement applying to anyone who ever lost.

Your response reminds me of this:

And those aren't my words you're taking out of context.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As I said before, I read the comment twice. Yes, they talk about slavist, racist, confederate generals at first, then, only about loosers. You can, of course, read the comment as if they are still talking about the three things bundled together, but another read is reasonably possible. I wouldn't reply in this way if it wasn't, but this is getting too distracting from the main point of the post. I'm sorry if I came across as too judicious. I extend these apologies to OP.

[–] Jax 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah, there might be a plaque somewhere with my relative's picture on it, but everyone would know that the picture is really there because that person shared the same last name as a general who fought to keep humans enslaved, and lost. And everyone would know that person is the one the base is really named after.

We shouldn't erase our history, but we shouldn't elevate losers, either.

Holy fucking cherrypicking, Batman

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Maybe they're a fucking loser and they feel offended.