Let me see if I can give a view from across the pond so you can see how it looks.
Imagine a group of people who were misused for a long time, say children abused by paedophiles.
Now imagine that there were statues across town, lots of them, that venerated the paedophiles because they were paedophiles. They've been there for a while and this is pissing off some people who were abused as children, the persistence of the statues seems to give some legitimacy to paedophilia and other non-abused children like to keep them around as a reminder that their great grand daddies were paedos and it makes them more likely to look at kids and think they are sexy.
Now what do you think?
Should you keep the statues around?
They are historic and the people in them aren't actually abusing children on the statues, but everyone knows that that's why they are there.
What then?
Imagine a group of people who were misused for a long time, say children abused by paedophiles.
Now imagine that there were statues across town, lots of them, that venerated the paedophiles because they were paedophiles. They've been there for a while and this is pissing off some people who were abused as children, the persistence of the statues seems to give some legitimacy to paedophilia and other non-abused children like to keep them around as a reminder that their great grand daddies were paedos and it makes them more likely to look at kids and think they are sexy.
Now what do you think?
Should you keep the statues around?
They are historic and the people in them aren't actually abusing children on the statues, but everyone knows that that's why they are there.
What then?
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
