RE: Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues
September 12, 2017 at 11:04 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2017 at 11:06 am by FatAndFaithless.)
People who think that moving a statue to a museum (or even just getting rid of it) is destroying/erasing history either haven't been to a museum before or aren't talking about history.
The community at the time decided they wanted to memorialize certain people for certain things, and now that same community has decided they no longer want to memorialize those people for those things. Nobody's saying remove this part of history from textbooks, or stop all exhibitions at museums at museums that they don't like, this isn't some whitewashing of history (ironically, the pro-Confederate Lost Cause narrative and subsequent statuary and monuments is whitewashing history). It's a community coming together to say they don't want to keep a statue(s). S'pretty simple.
The community at the time decided they wanted to memorialize certain people for certain things, and now that same community has decided they no longer want to memorialize those people for those things. Nobody's saying remove this part of history from textbooks, or stop all exhibitions at museums at museums that they don't like, this isn't some whitewashing of history (ironically, the pro-Confederate Lost Cause narrative and subsequent statuary and monuments is whitewashing history). It's a community coming together to say they don't want to keep a statue(s). S'pretty simple.
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson
