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posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:14PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-be-replaced-by-piles-of-beignets dept.

A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour

[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]

The other monument

[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.

Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:42PM (#504060)

    > Historical revisionists are fucking with our history, and you dare call the dissenters terrorists?

    (a) The only revisionists are the people who deny that the war was fought over slavery
    (b) Political dissent with a bullet is the literal definition of terrorism

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Thursday May 04 2017, @01:10AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Thursday May 04 2017, @01:10AM (#504093)

    And I for one find it significant that one of the monuments that white supremacist terrorists are threatening violence to protect is in honor of white supremacist terrorists.

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    The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.