After Palmyra ISIS Targets Monuments on U.S. Soil

Or give him a handful of cigars and use him for advertising.

The title of the thread is a bit ironic, isn't it? Palmyra is being preserved as a museum, isn't it? To remember the past?Nobody is suggesting that Confederate flags should be destroyed, only that they belong in museums to be remembered.

Well, no, that is not the definition of fascism. Suppression of ideas may be a symptom of fascism but it isn't a fundamental principle.And of course, nobody is suggesting that Confederate flags should be "hidden away" or that the messages they send should be suppressed. What people want is to remove the symbols of slavery from our public buildings. They want our governments to stop expressing pride and admiration for the symbols of slavery.

I don't think that's true. I think it's more abstract than that.

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"There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South... Here in this pretty world Gallantry took its last bow... Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave... Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A Civilization gone with the wind... "

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I think many/most admirers of the Confederate flag are able to double-think that "pretty world" with the reality of slavery (and the post-Civil War repression of black Americans). You can't put an end to a symbol by burning it.

And it didn't work, did it?

We have museums chock-full of statues that have been moved.

My local library has used book sales - 50 cents for paperback, $1 for hardcover, $5 for a bagfull.