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| darkknight109 08/31/17 11:34:58 AM #16: | TheCyborgNinja posted... but at the very least they should be presented in a museum for the purposes of education. Put a little biography up detailing the good and the bad. Done. That's simply not enough for those fringe "triggered crybabies" though. You are vastly underestimating the number of confederate monuments compared to museums, as well as overstating their historical significance. As an example, 35 confederate monuments have been installed in North Carolina alone since the year 2000. That is within the living memory of most people on this site. Most of the confederate monuments were not installed as historical pieces in the immediate aftermath of the conflict; they were installed during periods of heightened racial tension as a not so subtle message to blacks that whites were still running the show and they should tow the line or get out. If there's a notable artistic or historical reason why a given particular statue should be saved, fine, make that argument. But giving them a blanket pass "because history" is ridiculous, especially considering a lot of them were mass-manufactured. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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