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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
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.
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It's the same debate. You don't need to have the flags or statues to remember the history. Memorials that don't honour people who fought to keep slavery alive aren't complicated to make. The problem is there is a large portion of the population that idolize these historic figures and promote what they did to gain support for pushing an agenda of bigotry, racism and hatred.