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Originally Posted by Damien
No but Robert Lee isn't being condemned for owning slaves so much as fighting a civil war to, among other things, retain slavery. When the time came to end slavery he didn't just oppose it's abolition but took up arms to stop it. The statues are there to honor his role in that.
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There's a memorial to British soldiers that died in the boer war in Bedford, perhaps that should be pulled down considering that's the war where we invented the concentration camp that cost the lives of so many women and children over there. Another way of looking at it is he took up arms to defend his state and did well in the role given, I wonder which they were honouring when they put the statue up.