Go tell that to the Smithsonian

The bigotry and homophobia is strong with this one. But apparently he's pro pedophile.

How much did this shit costs taxpayers?

Hegseth lies because Bone Spurs’ racist regime continues to erase American history daily 😡

Oh, yeah, “woke,” meaning conscious, aware, educated… any such people who condemn slavery and any statues honoring that shameful part of our history. Alcoholic rapist Hegseth can honor slavery all he wants. He is a racist scumbag MAGA GOP clown 😡 The racist regime continues to dishonor Arlington.

General Lee ended up regretting his decision to lead the Confederate Army.Since Lee graduated from West Point, he swore an oath to defend the US and violated that oath, making him a traitor. All those who took up arms to fight against the Union soldiers were as well. They don’t deserve monuments.

I don't see Germany erecting statues to a loser like Hitler or Italy erecting them to Mussolini or ANY of their generals or henchmen. Why do we defend statues to our losers?

Yup and had we hung everyone who ranked above the common foot soldier who fought for the Confederacy, in the towns they were from, we wouldn't be in this modern day mess

We oughta put up some bronze statues of the daughters of the Confederacy then. They're the racist assholes who dredged all those confederate losers out of Cocytus and built statues of them in the 30s and 40s

I’m sick of this dog whistle, subversive racist BS. I hope that I see him get the karma he deserves.

They sure are. That's why they're working to bring it back.

I would prefer the US to be up front and honest about the slavery in our past. We could also talk about the genocide we committed on Native Americans as well. Or the theft of land, internment camps, and all the rest of the things we've done. Pride here equals whitewashing of history.

Douche

Maybe he should spend 12 years as a Slave?

I thought this moron was getting fired?

Yeah, they are too busy plotting racist reasons to erase history.

As he does everything possible to erase everyone but white Americans from US military history.

He was a traitor, dumbfuck. That is not the history of your COUNTRY.

Well. They don’t read anything so they need statues to know who’s important.

Proud of traitors.

Unless you are a different color and you are erased.

He has nazi tattoos. He's a fucking nazi.

It makes sense this administration is made up of traitors and losers, which also describes the confederacy.

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America only became great AFTER abolishing slavery. It's as though they just love the slavery part.

It is, isn’t it?

That’s becoming more evident every day.

What about the history of trumps impeachments? Proud of that? Then why did you erase it, dipshit?

Why does he hate America?

KEEP REPEATING: THE PRESIDENT IS A SEXUAL PREDATOR! DO IT AS MANY TIMES AS POSSIBLE EVERY DAY!

Hegseth: Stupidity meets power.

Unless it's Harvey Milk

They can place those statues back up. How long they stay up is a whole different matter...

His justification is only valid if they restore the history they have removed from federal entities, like the Smithsonian. Otherwise, it is just hypocritical propaganda. A statue is not history; it's an honor. Slavery should not be honored by a statue; its lessons should be honored by history.

He’s an incompetent, racist drunk who should be removed from office. #signalgate #ignorantcreep

We don't erase history is quite a statement from someone in an admin admittedly erasing whole swaths of US history 😡

We're going backwards in this country

DEVO ain’t just a rock group.

Proud except when ppl refer to how it has impacted generations. He and his ilk always get ghost when that is brought up. They remain what they believe DEI/AA to be. Completely unqualified and over their head on the jobs they were given. Them drowning has to bring all of us down. Elect a clown….

Damn, he's so disgusting.

He most definitely is.

Pete was born and raised in Minnesota. He’s not from the South. By “our” history he means racists

They're proud of losers? What a nation.

"We recognize our history. Take the two Trump impeachments... okay...bad example...".

Good to know the DefSec thinks traitors to the US are "heroes" who should be celebrated with statues while decorated serving members who happen to be women or POC should be demoted from senior posts.

I mean technically and literally- he was and is a Union Soldier

Or if you are transgender, no retirement benefit for you! Which I hope is illegal.

Since when do we erect monuments to losers? What part of they didn’t win the war people don’t get? Should we erect a monument in Boston to the British redcoats?

We should factually acknowledge it in history books. Pete wants to celebrate traitors with public statues of people who got their fucking asses whipped by the US Army.

The GOP goes all in on treason! Slavery and treason, nothing to be ashamed of. Women, queens, and People of Color who are actual heroes? Erase all memory of them asap.

As an Austrian expat I could not imagine being back Nazi statues just because it is “history” WTF?🤬

This former Antisemitic major of Vienna who’s statue is still up in the square named after him, ( which should be taken down or removed) in my opinion the city instead did this www.cnn.com/style/articl...

Trump's Secretary of Defense is proud of traitors who fought to bring down the US government.

He literally has removed pages of black soldiers front the gov website. Seriously, how we end up with this trash? Oh wait I got it, the bros and gen z And Latinos for trump And Asians for trump And Haitians for trump And Venezuelans for trump Got it .. and musk

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We just shit-can what we don't like about it, huh?

They don't want to teach about the history of slavery in schools because it's "too upsetting", but they're fine with honoring military leaders who supported slavery on the hallowed grounds of Arlington.

Does he realize the confederates were the bad guys? 🤔

Stupid pig

Says the asshole who stripped the name off of military ships due to homophobia. Just come out and say that you're a racist, homophobic POS.

Incompetence and racism go hand in hand

What about MLK's bust he removed from the white house

Princeton.