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The rise and fall of America's monuments
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
How Confederate Monuments Subjugated White Southerners?
In general a monument is telling you your place in society, or attempting to tell you that place. So i was interested to think about why there are so many monuments showing just a low ranking, anonymous confederate soldier and why those poses were almost always the same. They're shown just standing there in this very stiff posture, which i found out by looking at military manuals from the time, is known as parade rest. And it wasn't anything to do with ing at all. That was the pose you would stand in when your drill instructor was telling you how to behave. You were forbidden from moving or even speaking in that position. These monuments are celebrating the obedience of the lower class l
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