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agesboy posted...

you can acknowledge an event without having it on brazenly proud display like this

if the people who were hurt by it the most want it gone and not memorialized, then it should be gone

Except nothing about it suggests a sense of "pride" and its removal helps to cover up a dark period in the history of criminal justice, one that'll be easily forgotten.

agesboy posted...

if the people who were hurt by it the most want it gone

...the people actually hurt by it likely aren't alive today and the protestors probably aren't even old enough to be children of anybody who suffered by it. The last time that one was used was in 1952. You'd have to look around nursing homes to find somebody who was whipped at that post since they'd be in at least their 70s if not 80s by now (because they weren't whipping people *born* in 1952 there)

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