re: #42 HappyWarrior

What pisses me off as a descendant of a Union veteran is that the CSA gets romanticized to the point of nausea and this bs notion that they had to choose their state. Every state and territory sent volunteers in 1861. Lee should not get excused because Virginia seceded. There were plenty of Virginia Union men and women. Doesn’t mean I think he’s akin to Nathan Bedford Forrest but he’s not the good Saint Robert of Lee that the Lost Cause wants him to be.

It’s similar to the Holocaust deniers and Hitler apologists, like David Irving. They know they can’t fully enter the mainstream with such history opposing them so they try to rewrite it to rehabilitate the Nazis.

A lot of the bothsidrisms the right use were originated in the denial movement. You even see it played out with Trumps response to recent events.