There are in fact memorial statues, in Germany, of individuals that served in the Wehrmacht during WW2.

He fought in the Mexican-American war for the US. Pike also successfully advocated for Native American tribes in Federal court. Pike was a racist and hated Catholics in his early life. Late in life he mellowed out and became a staunch friend and ally of "Negro Masonry".

Citation: de Hoyos, Arturo (1996) "On the Origins of the Prince Hall Scottish Rite Rituals", Heredom: The Transaction of the Scottish Rite Research Society vol. 5 Washington, D.C.: Scottish Rite Research Society, pp. 52"53

Individuals, a general, same difference right?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-28 03:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's not a statue of his as a general.

A memorial to Pike was erected in 1901 in the Judiciary Square neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The statue portrayed him as a private citizen and Freemason. He was the only former Confederate military officer with an outdoor statue in Washington, D.C. In 1992, the D.C. Council petitioned the federal government to remove it. In 2017, protesters circled the monument after a Unite the Right rally, calling for it to be torn down, a sentiment echoed by the D.C. Council.[34] In July 2019, Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill to remove the statue but still preserve its history.[35] On June 19, 2020, protestors tore down the statue and set it ablaze, in connection with the George Floyd protests because of Pike's association with the Confederacy and of his alleged association with the Ku Klux Klan.[36]

All levels of Nazi, but the statue isn't them as a Nazi, just as this statue isn't him as a Confederate general. Does 4 years of war define a persons entire history? Only if you can't critically think.

One of my favorite subjects, historiography. If you never took a proper high level course for history majors teaching the science of it, I can fill you in with a quick paraphrase: You can't please everybody, not donors, not activists, not politicians.

While people are busy fighting the culture war over statues activists on either side have done zero research on, the end result has been playing out for awhile. Institutions like colleges end up using the indirect approach to social warfare over commemoration, name it "Building 5". No history, no conflict, no institutional threat.

Equivocation, moving goal posts, straw man, poisoning the well, moral reductionism, guilt by association.

You're not fit for life in a liberal democracy where people have complex biographies. You need reductionist simplism and are incapable of any good faith discussion.

Now back to me not posting for weeks, this place is as dumb as a den of Trumpers and it makes me feel stupid for coming here and reading this nonsense.

So who is pleased by the statue?

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-28 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

Freemasons. It's a Freemason statue. They still exist. I can introduce you to the black Freemasons in Houston, so you can have your first black friend if you don't piss them off, they are all cowboys.