Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[FatAndFaithless]

But your beliefs do not matter.  The city council of Charlottesville voted to remove those statues from city-owned parks.  The protests were being organized by racist motherfuckers from all over the country who wanted them retained.  You know the right-wing is quick to denounce "outside agitators" when they are black or brown but when they are white - wearing sheets - they think they are fighting for history.

Bullshit.

Also a good point. If the city itself doesn't want it, then it's for the best and in that case, there's no point in me trying to argue otherwise. I am legitimately surprised this point has been buried underneath all the rhetoric.

The problem comes when certain state legislatures have laws saying that no city can change/remove war monuments, a law which some states do have.