'Cowards & traitors' written on Confederate monument

[Judi Lynn]

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Source: Associated Press

Updated 6:54 am CST, Wednesday, December 26, 2018

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A Confederate monument in North Carolina has been vandalized again.

The Winston-Salem Journal reports that the words "cowards & traitors" were written on the base of the Confederate Soldiers Monument in downtown Winston-Salem. A Winston-Salem police report says the vandalism was reported Tuesday evening.

The police report classified the crime as "malicious injury to property." Further details haven't been released.

The same monument was sprayed with black paint in August 2017, soon after the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.




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[bluedigger]

1. Seems redundant.

[violetpastille]

2. That looks like something I would have done as a teenager.

Too bad they couldn't match up the font.

[Adrahil]

3. It's well past time to stop honoring traitors. NT

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I agree with the sentiment, but vandalism is vandalism.

[dameatball]

6. Correct. Now some poor schmuck has to go clean it up.

[NeoGreen]

9. No text...

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[TreasonousBastard]

10. Yeah, there is that question of "art".

[Merlot]

11. Vandalism or free speech?

Personally, I think any confederate monument is a vanalism on the spot that it stands.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. It's a line that's constantly in motion.

[hedda_foil]

5. Traitors, yes! I don't think anyone can truthfully call the Confederate soldiers cowards though.

[The Mouth]

8. True, that.

Poor fuckers were manipulated heavily- since very few southerners owned slaves. At least we don't have poor soldiers fighting and dying to protect a capitalist system that ensures they are so heavily disadvantaged that soldiering is an attractive option anymore... right?

[DavidDvorkin]

13. True.

[The Mouth]

7. I wish we'd keep these monuments

And simply add a white flag and a plaque that says "LOSER"

[pressbox69]

14. If the South is going to do it again

They'll have ti do it in hell where it belongs.

[JudyM]

15. Locking.

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