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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 3016776" data-attributes="member: 66082">Oh so you on the lost cause bandwagon, you do know that&#039;s the same argument that white supremacists and Nazi&#039;s are making.&nbsp; Protect our history, civil war not about slavery, not everyone supported slavery, must defend confederate statues.Look every piece of history is not memorialized with statues so this argument that removing statues erases history is idiotic. Slavery was 100% the cause of the civil War, it is in the declarations of war of the states that joined the confederacy, and finally every person in the confederacy knew slavery was wrong and immoral because other people knew it was wong and immoral the enslaved knew it was wrong and immoral and those in the confederacy fought to keep that great evil around.The idea that we have to know what is in the heart of every soldier of every military conflict before we can describe why the two sides are fighting is anti-history and something we don&#039;t do for any other war.We take the reasons given by the LEADERS of the war to be the reason why the war was fought, and the reasoning for the civil war given by the leaders of the confederacy was because of slavery.Please you don&#039;t have to pursue this line of thinking.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 3016776, member: 66082"] Oh so you on the lost cause bandwagon, you do know that's the same argument that white supremacists and Nazi's are making. Protect our history, civil war not about slavery, not everyone supported slavery, must defend confederate statues. Look every piece of history is not memorialized with statues so this argument that removing statues erases history is idiotic. Slavery was 100% the cause of the civil War, it is in the declarations of war of the states that joined the confederacy, and finally every person in the confederacy knew slavery was wrong and immoral because other people knew it was wong and immoral the enslaved knew it was wrong and immoral and those in the confederacy fought to keep that great evil around. The idea that we have to know what is in the heart of every soldier of every military conflict before we can describe why the two sides are fighting is anti-history and something we don't do for any other war. We take the reasons given by the LEADERS of the war to be the reason why the war was fought, and the reasoning for the civil war given by the leaders of the confederacy was because of slavery. Please you don't have to pursue this line of thinking. [/QUOTE]

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