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If we take down the statues then what?
If we take down the statues then what?
Once the statues come down then the only logical next step is to tear down all houses to which not only the confederates built prior to the civil war and also the colonial homes and farms as well. The logical progression would be to destroy Not just the confederate houses and cities like Charlottetown...
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: ChesterJohn
If we take down the statues then what?
Book burning.
Really.
I don't see a difference.
If we take down the statues then what?
There is so much that would have to be destroyed in order not to offend anyone today.
generation of hypersensitive individuals who could not handle even the slightest offensive word or gesture
“Jefferson Davis, although infamous in his own right, would probably not be too happy about a diverse school promoting the education of the very individuals he fought to keep enslaved being named after him,” Davis Magnet IB PTA President Janelle Jefferson said.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: ChesterJohn
If we take down the statues then what?
Erect statues of crimefighting superheroes.
Comic book characters have been elevated to Icon status.
Lets put statues of Batman and Wolverine in the town square. That way when our kids go, "who's that daddy", you can say "thats an imaginary person on TV".
When armies are defeated on their own soil—particularly when those armies fight to promote racist or genocidal policies—they usually don’t get to keep their symbols and material culture. As some commentators have noted, Germany in 1945 is a useful comparison. “Flags were torn down while defeated cities still burned, even as citizens crawling from the rubble were just realizing that the governments they represented had ended,” wrote a reporter for McClatchy. Most physical relics of the Nazi regime were banished from public view.
In Germany, you won’t see neo-Nazis converging on a monument to Reinhard Heydrich or Adolf Hitler, because no such statues exist. The country long ago came to grips with the full weight of its history. But you’ll find Nazis and Klansmen in Virginia, circling a statue of Robert E. Lee, a traitor who raised arms against his own country in the defense of white supremacy. How do we explain to the descendants of his victims—fallen Union soldiers and widows, and so many million slaves—that Robert E. Lee doesn’t deserve the same eternal infamy as Eichmann or Heydrich?