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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
No Robert E Lee was not hitler, I think a better example to stick with the German theme would be Heinrich Himmler, would you argue for a statue of him to be kept? Any memorial site for troops in Germany are very clear in their message that they served their country valiantly, but that the what they were fighting for was wrong.
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I really don't think he's comparable to Himmler either but whatever.
I'm also not in "favor" of keeping the statue, apparently the city of Charlottesville voted it be removed and that's what should happen. The discussion of how to handle these sites is what's more interesting to me and I've enjoyed reading people's points of view. In a lot of cases it's a lot more interesting than the 2015 debate in the States about whether the Confederate flag should be flown from public buildings like it was in South Carolina, which should absolutely be a hard-no.