Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[TheBeardedDude]

People don't get their history from statuary.

Put simply: the point of a physical representation of a person is to remember that person.  When did it come to pass that only people we are fond of should be remembered?

Let a statue of Lee have this effect: those who despise him can ponder why they despise him.  Those who love him can ponder why they love him.  The rest of us can simply look and say, "Oh I know that name.  So that's what he looked like. . . "

At what point did anyone suggest that Lee and the other members of the Confederacy be forgotten? Not memorializing them =/= trying to make society forget them