A Republican senator opposed to re-naming military installations honoring Confederate generals says doing so would be “historical revisionism.”
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1314376
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1314376
Hawley - "Sure, the Civil War was terrible, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Thursday on the Senate floor. But it also “gave us heroes and a more perfect union to love!”
That says enough right there.
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Cosplaying for his constituency. What a hypocritical punk.
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Is there a Fort Himmler in Germany? I thought not.
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He does understand that they were technically traitors to the country he represents?
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Historical revisionism is pretending that the Confederate traitors didn’t get their asses soundly whipped.
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I have been watching Hawley, figured he was a smart (if dishonest) guy who was trying to build a national future for himself post-Trump.
But then he does some dumb shit like this. Hell even Inhofe (R - people who inbreed) voted for removing confederate names from bases.
This just goes to show that the FOX news bubble is so strong that even a smarter guy like Hawley is unable to see where this is going. Shows that the republican party has little or no future other than as a regional minority party.
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It would be an honor to see Ft. Bragg and Ft. Benning, two places I was based, renamed after Medal of Honor honorees rather than third rate confederate generals.
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He’d prefer to be representing the Confederacy.
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Hawley - "A nation united in the cause of justice is dividing. "
Gee maybe the senator from Missouri could explain the Missouri Compromise (half slave, half free) while he has the floor.
How would you have voted Senator on that one?
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Historical revisionism? It’s merely correcting the revisionist myth-making that exalted these racists and traitors in the first place.
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Those in favor of a change, Hawley said, want “to erase from history every person and name and event not righteous enough, and to cast those who would object as defenders of the cause of slavery, to reenact in our current politics that Civil War that tore brother against brother and divided this nation against itself.”
No, you asshat, no one is trying to erase history. Putting up those statues and changing base names to that of Confederate generals was the attempt to erase history and cast the Confederates as somehow the winners. We’re trying to right history to reflect what actually happened. These traitors belong in the pages of history books, not a town square.
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So the revisionists who were revisioning history with revisions have now stated that unrevisioning the revisions are revisionist in their application. Got it.
Lemme check… Camp Benning was formed in late 1918, a full 53 years after the war ended (well, at least the shooting part. The whole thing never did stop and we’re seeing that today). Totally coincidentally, this is at a time where the KKK was massively rising and racial tensions were getting to a peak.
So first revision is pretending that it was a contemporary movement to honor people. We’ve seen some different places named, for example, for folks killed in Iraq or Afghanistan. That’s contemporary and something that people down the road should consider in historical context. Ignoring the context of when the naming happened ignores the other influences popping up around the time.
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Two sides trying to kill one another is a “shared struggle”? Ooookay…
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The Civil War gave us a more perfect union to love because the fucking rebs lost.
The revision of history occurred when the rebels were allowed to bask in the romantic mythology of a noble cause. They raised arms and fought against the United States of America, and they lost. Confederates aren’t heroes. Never were. They are traitors and losers.
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And, by Hawley’s logic, replacing those Nazi names with others who didn’t fight on behalf of Hitler would be an affront to Americans’ history of “shared struggle" during WWll. /s
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Technically, they weren’t traitors because they renounced their citizenship in the Union in favor of allegiance to the CSA.
What they did do is wage war against the US. There’s no more reason to name an Army base after Gen Bragg than there is to name one after Ho Chi Minh.
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To Josh Hawley: You’re a loony
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I wonder if Hawley would be in favor of renaming West Point after one of its most famous commandants, apparently one hell of a commander in the Revolutionary War, and one who still has no military installation named after him,
Benedict Arnold.
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He is.
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