The problem with that justification is the same can be said about Nazis, the Taliban, Al Queda, ISIS... they all fought for the beliefs and risked their lives for a cause. I mean to repeatedly blow yourself up to kill civilians in a bus or cafe takes real courage and conviction....Nazis truly believed in their cause and fought like hell until the bitter end. Think of how much guts it took for Al Queda to face drones and troops and still come back to commit mass shootings at hotels and car bombs at checkpoints.
Just the Southern States who wanted to remind the locals who the real heroes were and put down any thoughts of getting rid of Jim Crow. There were statues up since the end of the Civil War but the bulk were done in the 1910s and 1950/1960s when Blacks got too demandy for Civil Rights. Go to Gettysberg, Antietem and other places that are wonderful history museums without an attempt to glorify anything but recount a terrible war in U.S. history. That is where these figures belong, in a museum with the truth about them discussed and told, not glorified like great heroes who fought for the United States.
You don't get it. That is allowed. Tear them down. Its Orwellian but lets get on with it. I don't want to see a single statue anymore. We will honor no white person. We will rewrite history over and over and over. "Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia". Pull Lincoln down off that chair and throw him face first into the reflecting pool. Just get it over with. I will shed a tear when they get to burning the libraries but hey, easy come easy go. Should have stuck with clay tablets lol.
You're funny. You think it stops with a few statues. You're a funny guy. You see, its a package deal. If Confederate statues come down then they all come down. Its priced in so to speak. Its already happening. You don't expect Tyrone to differentiate between white historic figures do you? He just sees a statue of a white dude and its got to come down. So.. pull them all down. Drop the pretense and let 'er rip.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...to-be-removed-from-museum-of-natural-history/ There we go... get rid of Teddy because white.
George Washington statue vandalized: https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-latest-archbishop-criticizes-toppling-of-park-statue/ Statues are statues. Down they all go.
Gelsenkirchen: Lenin statue erected in German city 20 June 2020 ....Gabi Fechtner, described the communist leader as "an ahead-of-his-time thinker of world-historical importance, an early fighter for freedom and democracy", according to the AFP news agency.