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Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago

TIL that Arlington National Park was confiscated by the U.S. federal government from the private ownership of Confederate States Army general Robert E. Lee.

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TIL that Arlington National Park was confiscated by the U.S. federal government from the private ownership of Confederate States Army general Robert E. Lee.

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Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months ago
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      it’s a golf course, which is, like, environmental imperialism or something. ecological deserts, wastes of water and space.

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        Hear me out, but maybe we should properly enshrine the grave on the course.

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          I say move the grave/body to a proper location, considering why she was buried there in the first place.

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      Low income housing developments for immigrants with free citizenship classes.

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      maybe it stays as a golf course, but no use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, heavily limits on fertilizer use, no watering except collected rainwater, rainwater, and/or tertiary treated sewage, nothing motorized, and nothing electric except from more environmental sources—maybe have a few wind turbines there—and/or wp:nickel-iron batteries.

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      Pave over it and erase it from history.

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    It really is a shame the Confederate generals weren’t lined up and publicly hanged, but then as now, power gives you access to a different tier of ‘justice’.

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      So true and being white.

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      Only if we sit back and do nothing to change it. Trump is not a unicorn, he is a horse. America chose to allow this over years and years of voting.

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    We shoulda had him hanged by his balls.

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      That would be to peaceful. I say set him on fire and let people take turns beating out the fire. Instead he became the 1st President of Washington and Lee University.

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      maybe do a few years picking cotton, with ex-slaves as overseers.

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