Old ake is grasping at straws now. I don't know why anyone bothers.

Janie wrote:

"The Southern Poverty Law Center specifically excluded monuments to Confederate soldiers in cemeteries, such as the Chase Cemetery in Ohio where Confederate prisoners of war died due to squalid conditions and were buried, and at battlefield parks such as Gettysburg, that do tell the story of war rather than glorifying, in their listing of Confederate monuments."

I agree with SPLC's exclusions. I lived the first half of my life in the Washington, D.C. area and I'm pretty sure I've walked every major Civil War battlefield in MD, VA and PA, and some of the lesser-known ones, from Gettysburg down to Cold Harbor and Petersburg. With the monuments, statues and historical markers contained in those parks you really get a sense of what happened there and the experience would be much poorer without them. I'd never think of advocating for their removal, in fact I'd fight against it.

What's being discussed here is something very different. The removal of symbols that are tantamount to hate speech which, as many have pointed out already, is not protected by the first amendment. It's not too hard too understand, if you're willing.