Current Events > Do you think it's right to remove statues of "bad" people?

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Julius Caesar was a slave owner, murderer, conspirator, and committed genocide, and he's one of the most celebrated rulers in all of history. Columbus has a similar story, and has a national holiday and whole regions named after him. No one is rushing to tear down the giant statue of Genghis Khan in Mongolia.

When we start erasing history, we forget it. History class in the US is awful. You never learn any bad things the US did or about any losses of any kind. You never learn about the major genocides of world history. You learn about how George Washington never told a lie and and that's because people get offended by statues.

Keep the statues
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When we start erasing history, we forget it. History class in the US isawful. You never learn any bad things the US did or about any losses of any kind. You never learn about the major genocides of world history. You learn about how George Washington never told a lie and and that's because people get offended by statues.

What does this have to do with statues?
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We are going to have to knock those Kim statues down eventually.
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They way you wrote that kind of supports the idea that the removal of the statues should not be a problem. If they are currently present and people still aren't getting the proper education on who they are and what they've done, then what is the big loss of the statues are removed?
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Context fully matters in each case.

At this point anyone that harks on it has to be trolling, if you can't name basically all the arguments and refutations, get back under your fucking rock, you're late to the party.
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So you drunk twittered Hitlers speech or something and am now trying to clear your history?
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We should put them in museums, simple. That way historical records are preserved, people can learn and nobody is being celebrated with a monument. Everybody wins.
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The bigger question is: why should public funds be spent on statues at all?

I really don't care about statues. Like, aside from an artistic perspective, if every statue just disappeared tomorrow I wouldn't give a fuck. I cringe everytime I see a statue or monument glorifying the confederacy though. Not talking just a statue of some random person, but ones that have text saying crap like "these men died defending states rights" like you have in the Texas capitol (if it hasn't been taken down already).
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Statues of traitors to the US? A traitor who defected from the country and fought our country because he wanted slaves? A statue that the only symbol it holds is traitorous scum who fought for slavery. Yes, the statue should come down.

You execute traitors, not memorialize them. Throw it in a museum if you claim you want to remember it for being bad, not glorify it as a momunent.