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With the recent incident in Charlottesville and its violent protests I got to thinking. If someone sees the statues being removed as an affront to legitimate American History, he/she does not seem to have a voice. One cannot simply disapprove of the sanitizing of American History without being referred to as a Nazi, a racist, etc. Silencing the opinion of others is not a positive direction for the US. I personally disagree with supremacists and hate groups but am uncomfortable with what I am seeing.

You can say that their are no statues of Hitler in Germany. That's fair, but then you would have to acknowledge that he didn't want any made. I have lived in Germany. The troubling part is that you can pretty much be jailed for talking about this too much. Most of the people who do are referred to as skin heads and are widely shunned. It's almost as if the 7 years between 1938 and 1945 didn't happen. It's kinda sad really, not from a let's bring up hate perspective but rather from a historical perspective.

I can point to the statue of Nero in Italy, the statues of Vladimir Lenin in the Seatle and New York, etc. Why are they not similarly shunned?

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C7D posted...

One cannot simply disapprove of the sanitizing of American History

The creation and placement of these statues is a sanitizing of American history. Think of the historical dissonance to have a Robert E. Lee statue in a place called Emancipation Park
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Why is removing a ****ty statue an affront to American history? Not all statues are created equally.
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Why did the statue exist in the first place?