And. To the point of 1984-style revisionist history, old man. Statues are symbols we use to celebrate heros and victors. It's plain-as-day simple to look at a statue of a treasonous black-hating slave owner and say "maybe a statue of these pricks isn't the best way to memorialize history". It's not re-writing history to say "the union won and let's not celebrate slave owners". It's re-writing history to say "these slave owners are heros, lets memorialize them in statues".

There's a lot of problems with your comment but I'll stick with the most egregious/shocking point.

Are you really suggesting that confederate leaders are republican heros? And if-so... are you acknowledging that republicans admire and would like to celebrate treasonous bigots that went to war against the United States so that they could own slaves?

Sounds to me like you're admitting that the platform of the republican party is literally that of racists. So, in that way, I understand why these groups would respond to being oppressed by racists with violence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3n-cI4wXCM&feature=youtu.be...

Hmm, yes, imagine if a bunch Republicans took over a government building, armed to the teeth. I can't fathom it.

Wait now. Let's be honest with ourselves here. There's a big difference between these situations. The police didn't throw tear gas at the republicans.