DHBirr Wrote:robkelk Wrote:Not standing on the side of the Neo-Nazis, but I happen to think the statues shouldn't be removed, either. In my opinion, the applicable tropes here are Orwellian Retcon and Orwellian Editor.There's a difference between "erasing the past" in Orwellian style, and removing from places of honor the statues of traitors who fought to tear our country apart. The statues should be taken to a special museum as a "rogues' gallery," with the exhibit paying particular attention to the fact that they were first put up as a measure to intimidate the freed slaves and give the Rebel "cause" a semblance of legitimacy. Such a display would be more akin in its purpose to the Holocaust Museum in D.C. — "Never again!"
That, I can live with.
Getting rid of the statues altogether is what rankles me.--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012