30 sats \ 6 replies \ @TNStacker 21 Jun \ parent \ on: The Problem with Juneteenth econ
Since 2020, there has been the renaming of U. S. Army bases, schools, streets, etc. But there has been and currently is push back.
https://www.wate.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/virginia-school-district-restores-confederate-names-at-2-schools/
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Typical
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Sounds like moral relativism to me, which is overly simplistic and inadequate. There were abolitionist then. They knew. The human capacity for rationalization and justification is really something.
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Why say this in a discussion of Robert E. Lee, then?
Just because he was on the losing side doesnt mean he was a bad person.
He's not a bad person for being on the losing side. The stated cause of the losing side was wrong and immoral