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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
He was the General of the Confederacy, which was raised to ensure the original sin of America continued. He is the symbol not of gentlemanly conduct or great military prowess, but of the confederacy. There's no grand tradition his likeness rightly evokes.
To the many Black Americans, his likeness brings up the history of how he viewed captured Black soldiers as runaway slaves. Or how he fought to keep their forefathers as slaves.
There's no compelling reason to keep these statues around that I as a Canadian can see
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That's certainly a valid view point. To me though you could use the same arguments to wipe out any memorial to basically all the founding fathers