Your original comment was: "I say do away with history."
I took that comment to be flippant and basically saying, "people want to take down these statues and erase/do away/some other synonym or similar statement with history."
If it was not, I apologize and just would ask you to clarify what you meant.
If that was the meaning though, I stand on my original words. No one is "saying do away with history." People are saying, do not glorify and/or honor the Confederacy some very obvious reasons (which, as a Civil War history buff, you have to be familiar with those events and likely are familiar with the events afterward and their present effect on American society). Put the history into museums and out of public view to loom over America (as the Confederates were undeniably traitors, I mean they called themselves "rebels" so they were not denying it and their descendants never truly have to present time) and those who the Confederates sought to oppress forever (meaning, people that were slaves and/or African descent and their descendants).
No one ever allowed Nazis to put up statues 20+ years later once things cooled down; the Confederates should never have been afforded that right and this is something that can be easily rectified now in a teaching moment by what we would all hope is a more enlightened society. The history needs to be taught in detail, to teach our children to never, ever, ever go down that road again. No one is saying forget or erase it. But the statues clearly do not need to be in open public places and United States military bases do not need to be named after men that tried to topple the United States.
And, if that was the meaning (my initial interpretation), I think pointing out your expertise is merely once again confusing, this time as to my statement. No one ever questioned your history knowledge. I did question the intent and meaning of your original statement.
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