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EightySeven posted...

Nade Duck posted...

erasing history is always a good idea.

You can remember history without glorifying it. If it's truly and important historical artifact, maybe it should be in a museum. Granted it wasn't hers to destroy so she should be arrested, but removing the statues isn't necessarily erasing history.

Both of these. Keep teaching the history in museums and classes and the like, because history is important, but statues don't teach history. Statues just say "this guy was awesome!", and typically don't give any story beyond that. When a more comprehensive understanding of history reveals that the guy in question was not awesome, keeping the statue up in lieu of replacing or removing the monument is in fact suppressing that lack of awesomeness, and promoting an incomplete understanding of history.

And while taking the statue down may be the right thing to do, it is still vandalism, and should still be treated accordingly. Laws don't stop being laws just because they suck. There's a process for that which does need to be followed. When the laws eventually stop sucking, those arrested for such vandalism should be pardoned, but until then, the law is what it is, and should not be arbitrarily ignored.
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