Anyone who has studied history knows it’s a lot more complicated than that, which is why all historical statues need to be left alone imo.. getting rid of things doesn’t wipe out history.. if they want to add statues here and there for various things retroactively (Franklin did this).. it seems like a better compromise
Not really.. knocking everything down is very 1984ish and not a road we need to go down.. a statue sitting there does not hurt you.. just like people having nose rings and purple hair doesn’t hurt me lol… all of the people in history were flawed, rarely was someone completely bad or completely good.. it just was
Your premise is false, will say more later. PERSONALLY, I think defacing statues in infantile and stupid. They may have been sculptured and mounted to honor some yokel or another. But, they also serve as a reminder of past misguided thinking and behavior. People have a nasty habit of repeating the past, some even cherish doing that. So, the things remind people the cost of such conduct and attitudes. As for those who think as you do, Burhead, if you can't look at the past and judge based on 2017 morals and thinking, we don't folks like you advocate removing the statues which represent that past? Because you haven't learned anything, nor changed and discarded past morals and thinking. Your last sentence testifies of that very thing. Both sides are looking at these graven idols the wrong way.
