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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7879767, member: 10461"]Usually I’d agree with you, but you might be surprised. And you probably didn’t see the post I already removed, which brought up events five years ago, not a hundred and fifty.  The Civil War is still a contentious topic a century and a half later, only because too many people start using it to make hay over modern political events and hot-button topics like race and white supremacy and elections and whatnot. If it was kept in proper 19th century historical and/or numismatic context, I would agree with you- there’s enough hindsight there that it shouldn’t be divisive now.  Unfortunately it is all too often in recent years NOT kept in its proper historical context. And it is our job on the moderation team to keep topics from going off the rails, which is what my gentle reminder above was for.  You will note that I have not removed the whole thread, which I could have done.  Nor do I intend to, unless it goes off the rails. And anyone who steers it off the straight and narrow will have Doug to deal with. Look at his avatar.  See those teeth in his hatband?  Those are crocodile teeth. [ATTACH=full]1358652[/ATTACH] He killed that crocodile himself.  With nothing but a sideways glance. Because it was stirring the pot over politics.[/QUOTE]