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Old 08-23-2017, 11:30 AM   #8429
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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.
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.
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