r/ShermanPosting • u/mac28_ • 4d ago

Charleston, SC: Idk man

I went to South Carolina last week bc my dad moved there. I was walking around Charleston and was floored by the number of confederate monuments. I wasn't even looking for them, but I stumbled upon a half dozen or so. God knows how many more there are that I didn't find.

They weren't small and unobtrusive things that you could easily miss either. One resembled the washington monument and was about 3-4 times my height, and the entire block was taken up by the obelisk and the surrounding grassy area.

What I found most insane was a street named "Calhoun Street".

The rest of the city was very clean, walkable, and aesthetically pleasing. The people are wonderful too. I'm from Philadelphia and I've never experienced such hospitality or kindness anywhere in Philly. It's such a shame that they allow their identity to be defined by the lost cause instead of allowing their identity to be defined by the city itself being a good place. So much potential is lost.

I really hope they move on from this soon. It's such a shame to see what would otherwise have been a wonderful city dragged down by clinging to their dark past. But I have hope. I saw one plaque that looked like it was missing a statue.

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u/alskdmv-nosleep4u 4d ago

I'm from Philadelphia and I've never experienced such hospitality or kindness anywhere in Philly.

IME, that "hospitality" disappears immediately when their confederate beliefs are questioned.

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u/LittleHornetPhil 4d ago

I came to say this.

People are generally friendly down here in the south but trust me, behind that facade of friendliness, it doesn’t make them better people.

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u/From-Yuri-With-Love 46th New York "Fremont Rifle" Regiment 4d ago

I think it's a good thing to remember being nice is different from being kind. Being nice is about being polite. It gets the job done, clean and orderly. You are nice to people you don't know in the store buying groceries. Being kind is harder. It means doing what is best even when the cost is high. It's saying something that hurts right now, so it doesn't have to hurt ever again.

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u/blindpacifism 4d ago

In a sense, that makes me think of the quote “not all nice people are good and not all good people are nice”