//Would it be unacceptable for me to protest against cleaning the slate of all evidence of my ancestors?//

If you're doing it in a Klan robe or with a swastika patch on? My oath it is, mate. There's no bloody place in Oz for that mob. They can get stuffed the lot of 'em.

//I suspect the southerners who object to the removal of the statues of their ancestors feel the same way. they don't support slavery, but the honour the memory of those who fought for their people, despite the fact that they lost.//

Yeah, a lot of them do. And I've read some extremely well written and persuasive articles from southerners who argue that they should be retained because history is important even if it's ugly. Sometimes it's important because it's ugly, as warning to future generations.

But you cannot deny that there were some people involved in the Charlottesville unpleasant who were outspoken and unashamed white supremacists. Well, I guess technically you can, but you'll be in error. The facts are the facts.

And white supremacists should be soundly condemned at very available opportunity. The enemy of your enemy is not always your friend. The people who want to tear down the statues are wrong. But the white supremacists are even more wrong. And that is why they attract the most condemnation: Lavis 16:4 He who is most wrong shall be the most heavily criticised.

Toni,

Just as Islamic extremists don't represent all Muslims, neither did the handful of white supremacists represent the protest against removing statues or the non participants that supported them.

For Robert E Lee the civil war was problematic in that he supported neither the secession of the south or slavery, but joined the South because he felt it was his duty to support the states in which his entire family was based.

To try and erase this giant of the age from history is vandalism perpetuated by intellectual pygmies.

One has to be deliberately ignorant not to see their are far more black supremacist these days than white. Usually the white Marxist don't need much to allow them to vent their hatred and violence. Charlottville was one of numerous examples. One minute they are wearing their vagina heads, the next minute throwing violent tantrums because Clinton was not elected. How the academia must be proud to produce such putried examples of civilisation.

//neither did the handful of white supremacists represent the protest against removing statues or the non participants that supported them.//

But they were still white supremacists. My argument stands. White supremacists do not get a free pass because most of the protesters were decent people.

//One minute they are wearing their vagina heads//

Seriously dude, do I need to provide you with an anatomical drawing? Vaginas don't have cat's ears. They don't have ears at all.

' Seriously dude, do I need to provide you with an anatomical drawing? Vaginas don't have cat's ears. They don't have ears at all.'

I suggest you take that up with women who parade with such ' pride'. You know as well as I do that it was the feminazis who came up with the term.