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I used to live in Lexington, and did not realize there were any Confederate statues there. It is ashame the Democrats want to re-write history. When we forget history, we are doomed to repeat it. Very short sided, and overall the PC movement is destroying our country.
BTW, in my opinion no race is supreme. Maybe we should judge people not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. I think someone said that before.
As the mayor of New Orleans stated, how do explain to a young black child why there is a statue celebrating someone as a hero who fought to persevere the institution slavery on perhaps their ancestors or enslaving people who look like they do just because of the color of their skin?
I used to live in Lexington, and did not realize there were any Confederate statues there. It is ashame the Democrats want to re-write history. When we forget history, we are doomed to repeat it. Very short sided, and overall the PC movement is destroying our country.
BTW, in my opinion no race is supreme. Maybe we should judge people not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character. I think someone said that before.
Removing a Statue is not re-writing history. It is simply not celebrating the person who the statue is of.
I'm ok with statues being removed from public property. In fact I'd be ok with city/state/federal government removing all statues given that something is always offensive to someone. If we don't want to potentially offend some, we should ensure we don't offend any.
Where I draw the line is removing headstones. People should have the right to have a place to honor their departed family even if the departed held views most find abhorrent. And yes, there is a movement to force the removal of headstones of Confederate dead.
I'm ok with statues being removed from public property. In fact I'd be ok with city/state/federal government removing all statues given that something is always offensive to someone. If we don't want to potentially offend some, we should ensure we don't offend any.
Except this isn't about removing all statues or not celebrating anything because anything has the potential to offend someone, somewhere. This is about removing statues of people who fought their fellow countrymen to preserve a heinous institution, an institution so painful and deplorable that it only belongs in the shameful past of this nation. There is a meaningful and substantive difference between the two. Time to drop these false equivalences and specious rhetorics. Ok?
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