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In the June 1969 issue of Civil War History — Volume 5, Number 2, pages 116-132 — a renowned Southern historian attacked the legacy of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.
"No single war figure stands in greater need of reevaluation than Lee," wrote Thomas L. Connelly, the late University of South Carolina professor. "One ponders whether the South may not have fared better had it possessed no Robert E. Lee."
Connelly's essay was among the first academic musket shots fired on Lee's standing as an outmatched but not outwitted military genius presiding over a Lost Cause — a reputation celebrated in fawning biographies and monuments like the one removed Friday in New Orleans.
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The Truth About Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee: He Wasn’t Very Good at His Job
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Life is not for everyone.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Tuesday June 13 2017, @03:01PM (3 children)
You know who else has benefited from slavery? Pretty much everyone in the USA.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 13 2017, @03:55PM (2 children)
Yeah, well, some benefited directly, others benefited indirectly, and others benefited not so much, while yet others benefited not at all. As for me and mine, we don't have one single slave owner in our lineage. Not one. The Native Americans in mine and my wife's ancestry practiced something similar to slavery, but after a generation or two, the slave's descendants were part of the tribe. It's only the white men in America who settled on that slavery into perpetuity bullshit. That's a very special flavor of poison.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Whoever on Wednesday June 14 2017, @04:01AM (1 child)
No, I mean you, now.
Slavery exists in many countries. I suspect that you have bought products that have been made with slave labor, either abroad, or in a US prison. Not deliberately, because it's impossible for an ordinary person to know where many of the products you buy come from.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 14 2017, @01:48PM
I did miss your point. Sorry.
I try to avoid things that are probably made with slave labor. But, as you say, it's hard to know which is which. We can't assume anything, either. Wal-Mart has taken heat for purchasing items made in sweat shops, especially after a fire a couple years ago. Where is the line drawn between a sweat shop, and slavery? I think when the plant manager locks the doors to keep employees inside, he's on the wrong side of the line.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.