PC Gone Too Far

Are you talking about the monument in the OP?

Well that's definitely not the monument in the OP. It was put up by the daughters/granddaughters/wives/sisters etc. of the fallen soldiers who were upset by the unmarked confederate graves in the cemetery. So they spent years fund raising until they had the money to pay for a tribute to their fallen loved ones.

Except the monument in the OP simply says:

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Our Confederate Dead, 1861-1865

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Tribute to the Rank and File of the Armies of the South by the Kentucky Woman's Confederate Monument Association. 1895.

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So offensive

I didn't say that you did.Way to dodge the real point though.Edited by Cat Sci, : No reason given.

It was the Cave Hill Cemetery. That would be up to the people who paid for it.

This collective monument doesn't say what you said collective monuments say.

I think the place it is at used to be a cemetery too. It isn't clear:

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The area presently occupied by the nearby University of Louisville was purchased in 1850 by the city for use as an underutilized cemetery. source

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"Was purchased for use as" doesn't necessarily mean "was used as", so I dunno. I do think the place was somewhat strategically chosen:

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The dedication was on July 30, 1895, in time to coincide with the 29th Grand Army of the Republic annual reunion later in September. The occasion began with a parade which started on Broadway and followed down 3rd street to the monument. The parade included 200 ex-Confederate soldiers...

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The particular location does have some historical significance. According to wiki, the ownership of the monument is disuputed. The land is now owned by the University. Yeah, the land around it used to be bigger but they made it smaller for traffic. Sure, but that's not what is happening. According to the article in the OP, the guy pushing to have it removed says that it is "glorifying the nadir of America's past". It's not, its a tribute to fallen soldiers.He also said that "this statue being on the campus is somewhat akin to flying the Confederate flag over the (university's) administration building", which is a big stretch.This is a case of using being offended to push a political agenda, and this is a good case of PC Gone Too Far.This monument doesn't need to be removed and it's a stupid idea to do so.

Are you high?

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"Hurrah! our sons/brothers/husbands/etc. died in the glorious cause of _______!"

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is the same thing as:

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Tribute to the Rank and File of the Armies of the South by the Kentucky Woman's Confederate Monument Association.

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Really? Where's the hurrah? Where's the glorious cause? Some of them had to have been. But really, the people who built the monument were upset by unmarked graves and wanted something for them, and they could want that even if the deaths weren't worthwhile.Too, just because a cause was Confederate doesn't mean that it wasn't worthwhile. There was more going on than just slavery. Oh, I see. You're incredibly ignorant.The rank and file of the armies of the South were not dying to preserve the institution of slavery.I don't know how anyone could be so stupid as to think that.

That's terrible.

I believe that you do what you said.

You should visit Monticello...

So can you admit that you, yourself, are evil? And that everybody today is evil?You're certainly doing things today that future generations will consider evil.Evil is as evil does, you're doing evil things today, therefore you are evil. And so is everybody else.When everyone is evil, it really looses its utility.

I haven't seen him claim that.

Your perception of slavery is lacking.

By Ringo's logic, it's most definitely will.According to him, a person who never owned a slave but was conscripted into the Confederate Army was an evil person who fought to preserve slavery.So, anything your country does you are directly responsible for.Being a member of a country that continues to burn fossil fuels while they know that they're ruining the planet makes you an evil person.You really should feel bad about yourself