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Originally Posted by station
But to some of you guys it’s General Custer’s Last Stand. You guys are acting like an angry mob destroyed the statue with clubs, took the mayor hostage, and demanded that MacDonald be forever erased from history. The reaction to a minor issue is absolutely astonishing to me.
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And you're pretending there's no wider issue at stake, or context of historical figures and names being removed all over the country. Some of us are asking perfectly legitimate questions:
Since the vast majority of people born before about 1920 held views we regard as abhorrent today, what is the criteria for removing historical memorials and names? Or do we remove them all? And who gets to decide?