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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
But that's the thing, there are very few of these examples. In former confederate states there are numerous statues and a sense of pride associated with what they stood for which is not a good thing. If there was a statue of hitler in Germany today, how much opposition do you think there would be to taking it down?
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There are lots, that's true. And as other people have correctly pointed out many of them were commissioned in the 1925-1930 perios which was the rebirth of the modern Klan so a decent case can be made that they have both little historical significance and pretty disgusting racist intent.
But the Hitler comparison is weak because Robert E Lee wasn't Hitler. I'd say a better comparison, which someone else pointed out, is Rommel. There's also probably no Rommel statues in Germany but it's less of a slam dunk case. In people's fervor to attack everything Confederacy related in the coming weeks I'd expect some attacks on legitimate monuments to the soldiers who died, many of whom were conscripted to fight even though they didn't own slaves. Those sites should be protected, as the memorials and monuments to regular German soldiers in WW2 are.