Reply #47: We can't resolve the Civil War on DU [View All]

[txaslftist]

Or any time soon. It still goes back to "was it a war for slavery/genocide or was it a war for State's rights?"

If the war was about State's Rights, there is some justification for it and the confederate battle flag is a symbol of people standing against an oppressive federal regime. If it was a war to preserve slavery, it is about genocide, the south was little different than the nazis.

The nazis, on the other hand, were evil personified, a fact that can be little disputed.

So the confederate battle flag has at least some supporters who view it not as a symbol of racism, but as a symbol of a stand against tyranny. They also take pride in the military accomplishments of Robt. E. Lee, probably the best contemporary general of his generation (for those who back Ulysses S. Grant, I would posit that he was a next generation general, the first to understand fully the potential of total modern war).

So, the history is different, and there is at least a modicum of justification for "southern pride". There is and can be no rational justification for Auschwitz.