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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I believe the argument would be that blatant and hurtful reminders of past slavery and brutal racism is part of culture and history. It could be a reminder to not repeat it.
I'm bring very simplistic here. This issue has been debated in detail in the Charlottesville thread.
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Even if you wanted to take that tact, these statues are displaying these guys in rather flattering, heroic, proud-of-themselves poses, and I would argue that it was intentional to show them that way.