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Lee was a piece of shit. And fuck off with the claim that he wasn't fighting to preserve slavery. He was a slaveowner, who argued that slavery was good ("The painful discipline they are undergoing, is necessary for their instruction as a race"), broke the tradition of keeping slave families together, fought in court against another slaveowners will that would set his slaves free, captured free blacks and brought them to the South to be slaves. Even as a college president, he let lynchers and rapists (of black girls) off. Way the fuck worse than OBL in every way, and did way more damage to humanity and to this country.
That REL was not only not executed but was allowed to rehabilitate his image and make the "aww, shucks i didn't mean it, i woulda been a milkman" claim is SUCH a great microcosm of the country's mistaken failure to make the South repent.