Yeah, it's important to note that these statues are celebrating seditious traitors. The majority were also put up during the Jim Crow era in order to remind the black populace of its place in society.
It's interesting to me that we gleefully tear down the symbols of oppression abroad (remember how hot and bothered conservatives got when we toppled some statues of Saddam Hussein in Iraq?), yet tut-tut when it's time to do it here.
At best, these statues should be in a museum as part of an exhibit of how bad we can be. As a way to remember and to affirm we're supposed to be better than that. But in modern, public spaces? Fuck that noise.
It's interesting to me that we gleefully tear down the symbols of oppression abroad (remember how hot and bothered conservatives got when we toppled some statues of Saddam Hussein in Iraq?), yet tut-tut when it's time to do it here.
At best, these statues should be in a museum as part of an exhibit of how bad we can be. As a way to remember and to affirm we're supposed to be better than that. But in modern, public spaces? Fuck that noise.
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