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- yuekit3
I don't feel strongly about taking down the statues one way or the other, but I think people comparing it to ISIS are way off the mark.
Let's be honest and admit that the people screaming "erasing history" would most likely not have a problem taking down a statue of Stalin or even Hugo Chavez for that matter. No one is going to fault Berlin for not keeping up statues of Hitler.
It's not about history, it's about what a state endorses by honoring a particular person on taxpayer funded state grounds. Black citizens of those states are paying for the maintenance of those statues.
Maybe a good compromise would be to move them somewhere else, such as a museum where they can be treated as historical monuments rather than representing the people of the state.
- Or keep them in a Hall of Shame. People should witness who the traitors and racists were.Continuity
- Keeping them up but framing them in shame disarms them, but allows people to see history and learn from it.Continuity
- +1 voice of reasonfadein11
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- Turn them into animatronics and have them fight each other. The best metal racist robot wins! LIVE on Fox!face_melter
- all you need to do is change what the plaque says. It's not rocket scienceGnash
- although, face's idea has legsGnash
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