The hatred evidenced here amazes me. Here's what we ought to do. We need to burn the place to the ground. Then we need to spread salt so that nothing can ever grow there again. Then we should move to every other Confederate site and do the same. Once we've destroyed every site, pulled down every statue and expunged every reference to Confederates and the Confederacy, heck, we might as well even do the same in the cemeteries, no one should be reminded of the evil that only Confederates caused in this great nation. That way all will be safe from from being tainted by their very existence. Everyone's life will then be sweetness and light in the serene knowledge that all remnants of racism have been removed from our social fabric. We all know that only those rascally Confederates had these awful traits and views.
I'm sorry folks it has been a particularly bad day for me but I am quite literally sick to death of the incessant drumbeat that anyone who fought for the Confederacy is a moral reprobate worthy of being held up to to contempt and derision. Peace and Justice require understanding and tolerance of the views of others. There is none of that in this thread. I am sick of the veiled references to genocide, the overt references to Nazis and the like. It must stop. It serves no useful purpose. It is divisive and it mean spirited. It does nothing but make me want to dig in my heels and resist.