Huh? General Lee was the Commander of the Confederate States Army. No one is stripping him from the history books; he had an important role in history. It's the monuments glorifying him that are being removed from public spaces.

Feynman similarly was responsible for actual important works in physics. He won't be stripped from history books.

Robert E. Lee is still in history books. He may have a few less monuments than he did a few years ago, but then those who read history books rather than just worshipping graven images of historical figures out of context might realize that Lee himself was opposed to such monuments to either side of the Civil War as barriers to national reconciliation and progress.

I mean frankly who gives a damn what Lee thought; the issue is the same with feynman in theat it is their fans who romanticize them.

That said, it’s not exactly uncommon knowledge that Feynman was terrible to women, especially all the ones who followed his first wife, including his second. People aren’t exactly building statues to him so much as his lectures and story telling ability.

Last time I checked, Robert E. Lee was still in the history books.

> and will be one day stripped from the history books ala Robert E. Lee.

So, not at all because he was a central figure in that piece of history? I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make here...

Rewriting history is worse than these guys' behaviour. Future generations need to read about both the good and the ugly, if only to avoid repeating the latter.

It's rewriting history and the present to claim that Robert E Lee is being stripped from any history books. That's just bullshit. So's the idea that rewriting history is worse than fighting for slavery.

Since when was Robert E. Lee stripped from the history books? Not sure what you’re trying to say.

He's trying to say that he's the victim here, a white man suffering from reverse discrimination, sick and tired of having to tolerate people writing bad facts about Robert E Lee and tearing down his statues, which deeply effects him every day of his life, because tradition. We've heard it all before.