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In reply to the discussion: Here are the Confederate Memorials Getting Removed In US Cities [View all]calimary
(81,199 posts)Perhaps. But I think the only way to go with these "monuments" (monuments to WHAT? Losers? Traitors? Racists? Slave-owners? Seditionists? We're supposed to be honoring and celebrating those things?) is to get rid of them.
Or, okay, MOVE them. MOVE them all. To some Museum of the Confederacy if we absolutely must. Let the Southern states fight over who gets that museum. Confine ALL of that hurtful disgraceful shit in one place where those who simply must - can go and genuflect and blather on about the sanctity of their marvelous and memorable "heritage". It can be a "treasury" of the record of the Confederacy and all the trappings and mementos thereof. And anybody can go see it. Pay the admission and get in and suck it all up. It does NOT belong in the public square in any place of "honor." Because if it still is, that intrinsically means it's something to be honored. And what the Confederacy was and tried to do is NOTHING we should be "honoring" - in ANY way.
Heck, why don't we start putting up statues of Charles Manson, then? Or to Timothy McVeigh? Or why not ol' Adolf, himself? Shouldn't that, then, be honored?" To extrapolate out just a little bit, don't mass murderers need love, too? They don't have Hitler statues and monuments up in Germany. I doubt that most thinking people there, people with consciences anyway, regard that individual as someone to be honored or worth of being enshrined as a public monument.