Regarding The Flap Over Confederate Statues

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Honestly, in your experience, has a statue of a civil war general caused you, or your kids (if applicable), or your spouse or your neighbors to "discuss the darker aspects of our past"?  I can't say I've seen statues encourage that kind of discussion, apart from field trips to monuments that kids/highschoolers already do as part of history classes.  Museums also have a plethora of exhibits dedicated to horrible parts in both the US' and the world's past, that do a fantastic job of confronting visitors with darker parts of our history without needing memorialized statues of individuals on a pedestal on public land.

Like I said, a museum is an interesting idea, but is it really feasible?

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And you think a statue somehow would make the discussion more accurate?

If you put up plaques on the pedestals that put their actions into context, they might.

People don't get their history from statues.