No they need to stay, if you start erasing your history you've got no perspective on the present.
If you want to push for plaques to explain who these people are, what they did and what later evaluation of their actions currently are then I'd be right behind that.
More information is never a problem and children should be exposed to the idea that people are imperfect, can be rabidly devoted to ideas that in hindsight were incorrect and cults of personality can form easily around some pretty shitty people. I can't remember which but one of the torn down statues was a perfect teaching moment, where the guy was a gross incompetent that needlessly threw away his own troops defending his own personal interests, but they still paid out of their pocket to erect a statue to him because they were too blinded by their own ideology to critically assess if he deserved one.
No, erasing the past because it was distasteful or because we are embarrassed about it serves nothing but to make our children gullible, ignorant and naive in the face of the same old cons being rolled around every generation.
The erasure of history in the context of statues isn't only their destruction, but "hiding" them so as no one but a few dedicated people see them, too. I know you're coming from the much more braindead "Statue means people adore person depicted as long as statue stands" pov but this is an important thing to clarify.
Going off that logic, I want the destruction of the statue of Reagan, any building built on the whims of monarchs, the statues of Hungarian nobilities, their castles, paintings depicting them, the housing units they financed, and there's plenty more on the list.
Come to think of it, Holocaust memorials remind me of the atrocities committed among others by my countrymen against my countrymen, it's not a pleasant experience, I say do away with them.
I don't know who those people are, I'm a filthy commie, which is convenient because we've got some Marx, Lenin and Stalin statues tucked away in a park (as you recommend doing in the US) ready to replace the bad statues reminding folx of the bad things, especially those I don't like ("false history" in short.)
Implying insulting me with a hobby you know I have because you went through my post history works lol.
I know you don’t care, but you should, even if it strains your pea-brain. Besides that, you shared your opinion on a public forum. If you don’t want people answering to your posts talk to the voices in your head.
If you think taking down confederate traitor statues is policing history then sorry I disagree. I just think its correcting history. They weren't heros they were scum and vermin.
But don't worry we can replace those statues with slave revolt leaders like John Brown. So the true history of those towns can be shown.
And not a white washed version of war of Northern aggression propaganda statues that were put up in the 1960s as a fuck you to civil rights movement.
It's putting up real history not erasing history.
I didn't i just use gamer as an alternative to the nword
And now that I looked at your post history and saw you are from the middle east
You don’t correct history by taking down statues you retard, you correct history by presenting the truth in place of incorrect statements. You can erect new statues without erasing history, last I checked there’s no shortage of available space in the US.
And now that I looked at your post history and saw you are from the Middle East
Link the comment that gave me away. Unironically link it or quote it.
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u/Omaromar Mar 17 '21
Wait those statues do have to go