<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 3:22 PM, Dylan Distasio </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:interzone@gmail.com" target="_blank">interzone@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>The civil war took place within the borders of the US, and is woven into the fabric of the nation.  It's a false equivalence.  I would add that equating a monument to Lee with a Nazi symbol shows a lack of nuance regarding the history of the Civil War,</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​That's true there is a difference:</font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> *Robert E Lee was an American</div> traitor<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​,​</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ Hitler was not.</div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​<font size="4">*​</font></div><font size="4">Robert E Lee<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ ​</div></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">violated the oath he made when he became a officer in the US Army<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​, Hitler did not.</div></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​*​</div>Robert E Lee<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ killed 50% more American citizens than Hitler and Japan's Tojo ​put together.</div></font></span></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>I doubt Grant would be in favor of tearing down every Confederate monument in sight if he were around to witness this.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​Is there any reason I should care what Grant's opinion on this might have been?​</div> </font></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>And trust me, even if you don't buy into any of the above, this won't end with removing Confederate monuments once the alt-left finds its next target.  </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​Wow, that didn't take long! Trump says "alt-left" on Tuesday and on Friday we've got it on the Extropian list. Trump also likes to say "trust me" a lot. </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Monkey see monkey do.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">John K Clark​</font></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>