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u/Ginger_Lord · 26 pointsr/neutralnews

The difference is that these memorials were not just about remembering the past. If they were, then they would have gone up in the 1870's or 1880's when reconstruction ended. These statues went up during the next generation (2), why? As a celebration. These monuments were erected by the children and grandchildren of confederates who felt vindicated that their family's historic battle in defense of the social order was right. They felt that the North had instigated an unjust war, they felt that the North had tried to control the South during reconstruction and insult the South by forcing legal equality between the races upon them in spite of what they felt were clear mental and moral inequities between races (3, "The monument typifies the vindication of Mr. Davis and the cause of the Confederacy... the leading inscription being "Deo Vindice" (God will vindicate)."). And they felt that with the destruction of the reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow that they, the righteous and godly sons and daughters of the glorious but doomed confederacy, had finally won.

These statues were monuments not only to the honor of the dead, but also to the ideals that the CSA had fought for (4, "UDC [United Daughters of the Confederacy] members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization."). They were explicit endorsements of racism and have been a constant reminder to the black community of it's second-class status since they went up in the early 1900's. That's why this is different than a 9-11 memorial: memorials to 9-11 don't serve to dignify slavery and Jim Crow. These statues do, and that's why the blm wants them gone AND is why white nationalists get their jimmies knotted when they fall.

**EDIT Some Sauces:

1: A great response to a question about the history of these monuments by Mr. Zhukov himself from yesterday, outlining changing roles of these monuments thru the 1910's but not including the civil rights movement. I got a source or two from here.

2: SPLC monument timeline

3: Miller, James I.D. A Guide Into the South p 382

4: Cox, Karen. Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture (New Perspectives on the History of the South)

u/annerevenant · 1 pointr/IAmA

DoTC mainly functioned as a group of women who erected monuments after the war. I'm not really sure what you mean by "I've read a lot" but I would guess you haven't read the right information or you've read people who do a lot more speculation than history. I highly recommend Dixie's Daughters for a research based answer to the question of "who were the DoTC."