re: #205 Punish Domestic Terrorists

Recognize, yes. In books and historical media.
Celebrate, no. A civilized nation wouldn’t have statues, streets, and holidays named for people who were even considered to be monsters in their own time, and ideally wouldn’t have them for monsters who were considered to be OK in their dark time.

And this is the gist of the “remove Confederate monuments” movement: It’s not that Jeff Davis, Rob Lee, and the rest were outstandingly awful people for their time, it’s that the Confederate South is a dark stain on the legacy of the United States. (Nathan Bedford Forrest was absolutely an asshole, and he never should’ve had a statue at all.) We shouldn’t be celebrating any of them, not because their peers considered them bad people, but because we are in a position to adjudge them AND their peers as ALL bad people.