Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[Joods]

If we only had monuments to perfect people there would be no monuments.

Pretty sure some imperfections are worse than others. Say, for instance, adultery versus chattel slavery?

Get to work, and explain why MLK is just as bad as REL.

Or, alternatively, think a little about the issue.

Your choice.

tl/dr: your false equivalence is unconvincing. Trai moar.

You're asking Wooters to think. He just might hurt himself with that one.

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I'm personally against the statue removal.  I'd also be against the removal of Hitler statues in Berlin.  I mean. . . you don't want to have too many of them, but seeing how important figures in history looked is interesting and educational.

This shit about things representing ideas is bullshit.  So General Lee was a slaveholder.  His statue isn't enslaving anyone, and its existence doesn't necessarily imply endorsement of slavery.  He was an important player in American history, and I see no problem with his image being displayed.  Now, I wouldn't call the park, "Southern Freedom Memorial Park" or something, but that's a different issue.

So let those things go into museums where people can go look at them if they choose. If people are being unfairly subjected to them because those images are on public sidewalks or in public parks, where those things are out in the open and in everyone's face, so to speak, it's no better than the religious pushing their beliefs on those of us who don't care for it. 

You know that saying... it's fine to have a penis and be proud of it, but you don't go waiving it around in everyone's faces....