The question was answered PERFECTLY
This again.
Trump tries to defend his Charlottesville response by praising Robert E. Lee.
He claims the 'very fine people' remark was about people who "felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee. A great general, whether you like it or not."
Via Politico pic.twitter.com/01W4IwGx8y— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 26, 2019
Oh I’ve answered that question, and if you look at what I said you will see that that question was answered perfectly.
He said, with his usual air of ineffable conceit.
And I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general – whether you like it or not, he was one of the great generals – I’ve spoken to many generals here, right at the White House, and many people thought – of the generals, they said he was maybe their favorite general – people were there protesting the taking down of the monuments of Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.
Well, lots of people think that, and lots pretend to think it, but that’s because it’s the propaganda. It’s the dainty fig leaf pasted over the shameful history of slavery and white supremacy in the utterly literal sense that people like Trump want to translate into something noble. It’s just more Gone With the Wind which itself was just more Birth of a Nation which itself was based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon.
https://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1121787645749792769
Ah, yes, all those scholars of military strategy, devourers of historical biographies. Those are the people protesting the removal of Robert E. Lee statues. Uh-huh.
There’s one southern general that doesn’t get mentioned… Longstreet. He’s the only one that demonstrated remorse and made any attempt at redemption.
He’s also only got one statue… I wonder why…
Whenever people say that the history of a war is written by the winners, I think of the Civil War. We have allowed the south to rewrite the history to make it their noble cause against evil northern oppressors who wanted to take away the sovereignty of the state. Yeah. The sovereignty of the state that wanted to own people who didn’t look like them, and got mad any time a state entered the union that didn’t allow the owning of other people because they were afraid it would reduce their power to own people.
A catalog of popular historical lies would be a great project.
The Civil War…not about slavery is at the top of the list for Americans.
Hitler…caused by the Versailles Treaty for the international list.
The Czar…toppled by the Bolsheviks.
Joseph McCarthy…a patriot.
Alger Hiss…innocent.
Holocaust denial. Colonialism was altruistic. The Catholic church cares deeply about children. General Dyer did the right thing. The Jews caused World War One. The 1950s were a golden age.
This could be a lifetime project – for a young person. I’m afraid at my age, I would be too late to start it and have any hope of completing.